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TIL the country of Liechtenstein is so small that in 2007, Swiss troops accidentally invaded it after getting lost in a rain storm

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JY68m TIL Breast milk saved 16 people lost at sea. 2 days after their food ran out a woman told her sister to try her milk. She felt better and offered it to everyone else. The 8 men and 7 women took turns sucking her breasts and were able to survive for 7 more days until currents pushed the boat to shore
9YoR6 TIL that the han dynasty was founded because a sheriff let a few inmates escape and didn’t want to die.
8174 TIL that during the Rwanda Genocide, Hotel Manager Paul Rusesabagina hid 1,268 refugees in his hotel, none of which were hurt or killed.
pYw8Z TIL humans have recently evolved new traits like the ability to free-dive, live in high altitudes, resist disease, lactase persistence, and others.
9w6m7 TIL Peter O'Toole once had an abominable MacBeth debut that drew "fits of laughter" and had "a dimly lit collection of black plastic phalluses swaying in the wind"