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TIL that 95% of nuclear weapons are owned by the USA and Russia

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e0EE5 TIL, Edward Norton is a stalwart supporter in raising awareness and fights against illegal poaching of elephants and rhinoceroses, raising $1.2 million after running the NYC marathon to support the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust
9Yo5D TIL the Feynman Lectures on Physics, freely accessible online, is widely appreciated to be one of the most well written summaries of physics, and fully grapsing its brilliantly intuitive explanations allows one to enjoy a true understanding of the concepts
ykeX TIL that there were two twins named Jennifer and June who only spoke to eachother in a secret language, isolated themselves from the outside world, tried to kill eachother and wound up in a mental hospital and decided together that one of them must die for the other to live a normal life.
e0NZD TIL about the Meno’s Paradox, also known as the Paradox of Inquiry. The gist of this paradox is that inquiry is either unnecessary or impossible, based on whether you know the certain fact or you don’t respectively.
Y7gA TIL that the Japanese enslaved as many as 410,000 “comfort women” from Korea, China, and Southeast Asia to serve as prostitutes and raise the spirits of the Japanese soldiers. Approximately three quarters of them died and most survivors were left infertile.