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TIL that the sun is extremely loud

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RJn7 TIL A Siberian Man fell out of a train in -40C dressed in only shorts, t-shirt and a pair of slippers and ran 7 Km (4.3 miles) to the Station without any frostbite or even a cold !
NXvQQ TIL No Kill Shelters aren’t actually no kill. They save 90% of their animals to be considered no kill.
epNP5 TIL after the Khwarazmian Empire was destroyed by the Mongols, the Khwarazmian army survived and marched around the Middle East for a few decades as a mercenary force.
Z8Lx4 TIL: Solid blocks of gutta percha have been washing up on European beaches since 2012. The most likely source is from the Miyazaki Maru, a Japanese ocean liner that was sunk during WWI by the same U-boat captain who sunk the Lusitania.
OGxV4 TIL I learned that the first person to earn a PHD in computer science in the United States was a religious sister.