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TIL in 1949, eight observers documented every word and movement of a seven-year-old boy from rural Kansas for a sociological study

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N7ZWE TIL about Jim LeBlanc, the only man to survive a vacuum. He was a spacesuit technician, and entered a simulated vacuum to test a spacesuit, when his pressurization hose malfunctioned. He passed out in fourteen seconds, but survived with only an earache.
O5ye TIL The militarized border between North and South Korea, with practically no human inhabitants, has become a refuge for multiple endangered species
5VwEn TIL Russell Williams is a former Canadian colonel who was convicted of two murders
VxBQ TIL Canada is only 1.5% larger than the USA
l78ZB TIL that the heart of Washington DC in the mid-19th Century was a literal open sewer