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TIL there was a group of Jewish assassins who hunted Nazi war criminals after WWII

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YD4P TIL that Cap'n Crunch was born “on Crunch Island in the Sea of Milk – a magical place with talking trees, crazy creatures and a whole mountain (Mt. Crunchmore) made out of Cap’n Crunch cereal.” And his real name is Horatio Magellan Crunch
l7MV5 TIL that Archimedes of the 3rd century BC calculated the universe’s diameter to be what is now 2-light years in astronomy and discovered the law of exponent while trying to name numbers that are significantly higher than 10,000^2 (myriad myriads)
KO7La TIL although considered a once in a generation genius and having contributed an ungodly amount of research towards theoretical physics, Stephen Hawking never received the Nobel prize because his work was theoretical. Apparently it has to be proven to be awarded.
6ZEX TIL ravens have been observed calling wolves to the site of dead animals so that they will open the carcass and leave the scraps more accessible to them.
PAbJ TIL when the girl featured on the front cover of Vampire Weekend’s ‘Contra’ album artwork found out about the illegal use of her 26 year old photo, she sued the band. She found out when her daughter brought home a copy of the album one day.