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TIL that a German WWII pilot named Franz Stigler escorted a crippled American bomber to safety instead of shooting it down risking execution. Nearly 50 years later the two pilots found each other ...
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TIL about the "Dark Forest Hypothesis," which suggests the universe is like a dark forest at night. Advanced civilizations intentionally stay silent and hidden, because any species that reveals it...
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TIL 49 US state demonyms follow some form of state-suffix convention. Only exception is Indiana whose citizens are called Hoosiers.
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TIL Pedro López is a serial killer from Colombia who murdered minimum 110 people (real estimate over 300). He is wanted by Interpol and current whereabouts unknown.
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TIL a 23-year-old man ingested an estimated 100 dose-units of methamphetamine (≥1g each) fearing he would be arrested for possession after he was in a car accident. He survived the highest core bo...
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TIL that B.R Ambedkar, the Chairman of the committee that drafted the Constitution of India, which was put into effect in 1950, said three years later that "It does not suit anybody."
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TIL: Chuck Norris’ real first name is actually Carlos.
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TIL that there are good mosquitoes. The Elephant Mosquito does not suck blood, but rather drink nectar and fruit juices, thus helping to pollinate flowers. They cleverly lay their eggs near other ...
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TIL that your gut bacteria can influence your food cravings and some researchers believe the bacteria literally send chemical signals to your brain requesting the nutrients they need to survive
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TIL The prime minister of Spain under the latter years of Franco's rule was assassinated by 80kg of explosives packed into a tunnel dug under a roadway. The explosion sent the prime minister's Dod...
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TIL humans are considered by biologists to be self-domesticated
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TIL Americans streamed 57 billion minutes of The Office in 2020, 45% more than the second-place show Grey's Anatomy
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TIL Thomas Jefferson's tombstone lists what he considers his three greatest accomplishments ... none of which are being President of the United States.
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TIL the Australian ute was invented in response to a farmer’s wife’s letter in 1932. A woman from Victoria, wrote to Ford Australia’s general manager during the Depression, asking for a vehicle th...
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TIL King Richard III was buried without a funeral and his gravesite was discovered for the first time in 2012.
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TIL: The executioner who hanged the Nazis at Nuremberg lied about his experience, claiming to have performed hangings in Texas and Oklahoma after both had switched to electrocution. The hangings h...
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TIL the United States women's national ice hockey team has won a medal in every one of their Olympic appearances
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