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TIL Adolf Hitler had survived at least 42 assassination attempts

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e0Mj4 TIL When juicing a lime with a press juicer (the kind with a lever) you put the half lime into the cup of the juicer pulp side down/curved side up so that the juicer turns it inside out when you press.
7QOM TIL it literally rains diamonds in Uranus
5nW9 TIL Pope Pius XII declared, at the November 22, 1951, opening meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, that the Big Bang theory does not conflict with the Catholic concept of creation.
WkjYX TIL that four months before his infamous match against Billie Jean King, 55-year old Bobby Riggs played against the top-ranked female tennis player at the time, Margaret Court. He won easily in straight sets: 6-2, 6-1
gMDW8 TIL that in 1861, the Japanese created an illustrated history of the United States called Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi (“Children’s Illustrated Tales from 10,000 Countries”) which is a mythology of bizarre tales about the country, including John Adams and his fight against a giant serpent