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TIL that in 2012 Slovak Lawmakers made a public poll asking for the name for a new bridge between Slovakia and Austria. 'Chuck Norris Bridge' won overwhelmingly

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p8ye TIL Astronauts experience a euphoric ‘cognitive shift’ akin to Buddhist Monks after seeing Earth from space.
ne6Mo TIL the county of Multnomah created a “grounding space for black, indigenous, and people of color” to share, heal, and connect in an area not “dominated by whiteness”
b6L4 TIL that Martin Luther wrote a 65,000 word antisemitic treatise called “On the Jews and Their Lies,” which states that Jews are “full of the devil’s feces…which they wallow in like swine,” and that their synagogue is “an incorrigible whore and an evil slut.”
gjmb TIL a World War One submarine washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, England
4YWg TIL that it would take 1,200,000 mosquitos, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human’s body of blood.