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TIL During the London Olympics, the Military placed anti-aircraft missiles on the tops of apartment buildings

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VMjJ0 TIL that the lion population in India, the only one outside of the Sahara, has increased 30% since 2015.
PYvoL TIL that before it was possible to measure blood sugar directly from the blood, diabetes was sometimes detected by testing whether or not ants were attracted to the sweetness of the urine.
N7A7E TIL Andrew Lloyd Webber (the creator of successful musicals such as ‘Cats’, ‘Phantom of the Opera’, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ and many more) owns 7 theatres on the West End, has won an Emmy, Oscar, Tony and Grammy and was knighted in 1992.
OoGNe TIL of Lee Lorch a mathematician blacklisted in the 50s by most US universities for his civil rights activism. Before his death in 2014 he was asked if he would have done anything any differently. "More and better of the same," he replied.
Qn56 TIL that if you watched an object slip into a black hole, no matter how long you watched, you would never actually see the object enter it due to time dilation.