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TIL The popularity of Peaky Blinders may have inspired a surge in popularity of the names Arthur and Ada in the UK

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nWVGY TIL of ‘Operation Cat Drop’ when 14,000 cats were parachuted into Borneo to combat a plague of rats
ev4J TIL that Robert Oppenheimer, during the detonation of the trinty bomb (the first atom bomb), recalled that besides initial laughs and cries, most scientists were silent. Oppenheimer later recalled thinking of a line from Hindu scripture that read, “Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds”
awYrb TIL Part of the reason we sigh is because the alveoli in the lungs collapse with disuse, and a sigh pops them back open by taking in more air. Humans average about 12 sighs an hour, and without them our lungs would fail.
DQ98j TIL Cleopatra was not actually Egyptian, but Greek.
wbWE TIL The United States government has admitted to a past history of forced sterilization of Native American women