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TIL the odds of filling out a perfect March Madness NCAA bracket is 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (that’s quintillion).

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p8dd4 TIL When Nikola Tesla showed in 1898 a radio controlled boat, people accused him of having a trained monkey driving it.
MBKA TIL that the distress calls of baby mammals share elements across species: a study in the Canadian prairies showed that mother deers rushed towards recorded cries not only of infant deers, but also those of fur seals, dogs, cats and humans.
oQ4L TIL Rich kids bragging on social media, such as Instagram, are unwittingly providing incriminating evidence for prosecutors about their parents’ fraud schemes. Cybersecurity firms say they have been using social media evidence to nail fraud and assets in up to 75 percent of their cases.
N7y41 TIL In Medieval England, villagers mutilated the dead to stop them rising up. They were so afraid of the dead coming back, that they chopped, smashed and burned their bodies to make sure they stayed in their graves.
nen4d TIL that during the Rwandan genocide, a priest lured around 2000 Tutsis into his church under promise of protection, then ordered the church with all those inside bulldozed and shot the survivors.