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TIL Gino Bartali not only won the Tour de France twice, but also saved 800 Jewish lives during WW2 by smuggling counterfeit identity papers in his bike’s handlebars.

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WKj9 TIL in an effort to one-up the Soviets during the late 1950s, the United States planned to hit the moon with a nuclear warhead-tipped ICBM. In the Air Force’s infinite wisdom, however, the plan was scrapped because they felt the public would respond unfavorably to nuking the moon.
VBgOG TIL that the incubation period for rabies can be up to 7 years after exposure.
x6XKk TIL Hunter S Thompson used cocaine up to 11 times a day and had it with his sausage and eggs for breakfast
x6oeB TIL until the Eumillipes was discovered in 2020, no species of millipede actually had over 1000 feet
V8eD TIL The reason hurricanes and cyclones have human names is that the original meteorologist to name them, Clement Wragge, began naming them after politicians he didn’t like. This let him say they were ‘causing great distress’ or 'wandering aimlessly’.