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TIL of the Great Smog of London. In 1952, several days of intense smog that killed thousands and sickened 100,000.

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1GXO TIL An Alaskan town of 900 has recently just celebrated the 15th year of it’s town being ran by a cat, Mayor Stubbs.
nWDZP TIL of German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus. He created a list of nonsensical words to test his memory. He demonstrated that increased repetitions led to increased retention, graphing the relationship in what would be known as the learning curve.
m1Odo TIL the Solomon Islands Parliament Building was built as a US$ 5 million gift from the United States government, in memory of the US servicemen who died in the Battle of Guadalcanal
ND4M TIL that in 2007, a 75 year old woman smashed up a Comcast office with a hammer because she was fed up with their poor customer service
ENBd TIL that the instruction manual for the WW2 Tiger tank was written in poetry, and features ‘a woman who frequently found herself without any clothes with cartoon Tiger crewmen’