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TIL The US Congress is older than the British Palace of Westminister

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XEm5P TIL after sensing a strong rise in Jewish prejudice, Einstein fled Germany a month before Hitler rose to power, avoiding the Holocaust. After reading what ended up happening, Einstein never set foot in Germany again and died in the US in 1955.
rM6d TIL in 2015 a bus driver in India took a nap on his bus, only to be awoken to a monkey that had climbed into the driver’s cabin & had started the engine. As the driver ran to the cabin, the monkey panicked, shifted gears & jumped out. The bus rammed 2 other buses before the driver regained control.
lo0Q7 TIL the human body has 56 phalanges. The word phalange refers to an ancient Greek army formation in which soldiers stand side by side, several rows deep, like an arrangement of fingers or toes.
78eZP TIL point Nemo, the most remote location on earth, is a space debris grave yard. satellites, rocket parts and space stations are sent here when they crash down to earth.
pjYA TIL Concerned about the number of cobras in Delhi, British colonial officials created a bounty, only to discover secret cobra farms created to collect the bounty. When the officials shut down the program the farms released their snakes, meaning they had far more cobras than before they started.