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TIL Russia is so large, that not only does it take up 1/8th of the land on Earth, but the country alone is bigger than the planet Pluto.

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1jL7 TIL In 1952 a double-decker bus was crossing London’s Tower Bridge when the process to close the gates failed. Driver Albert Gunter made a split-second decision to accelerate the bus, clearing a six-foot drop onto the other side. The passengers received only minor injuries and Gunter won a £10 bonus
yQ4wv TIL that a handwriting expert believes the ransom note for six year old JonBenet Ramsey was written by the child's mother. JonBenet was allegedly kidnapped on December 26th 1996, but her dead body was found in the Ramsey family's basement. There were no signs of forced entry.
epgWb TIL Martha Gellhorn was the only woman reporter at the D-Day landings. Having been refused accreditation, she got there by stowing away in the toilet of a hospital ship until it set sail. She went ashore with medics to help bring back the wounded and reported on what she saw and heard.
l79YA TIL Adelle Hugo, Victor Hugo's daughter, developed schizophrenia in her mid 20's, she became obsessed with a soldier she had initialy rejected and left her home in Jersey to stalk him across all his millitary deployments in Ireland, Canada and finally the Island of Barbados
nmw9 TIL that the Doctor Who theme wasn’t performed on a theremin, but instead was created by the manipulation of an analog tape containing a recording of a single plucked string, white noise, and several oscillators.