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TIL that in the US, extreme heat kills more people than all other weather related events.

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PMwG TIL that in the 1970s, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis I) hid some of the Argentine military dictatorship’s political prisoners from a human rights watch group. The military routinely executed political prisoners by throwing them from an airplane into a river and sold their orphaned kids.
XpRP TIL on the set of “Django Unchained”, Leonardo DiCaprio was having such a hard time using so many racial slurs that he had to stop the scene, to which Samuel L. Jackson replied “Motherfucker, this is just another Tuesday for us”
ADyK7 TIL in preparation for their proposed invasion of Britain, the Nazis produced a handbook identifying dangerous anti-Nazi institutions in Britain, including Masonic lodges, the Church of England, and the Boy Scouts
0d1y1 TIL that actress Alicia Witt's parents were found frozen to death in their Massachusetts home in December 2021.They refused help on home repairs repeatedly.
OYNg TIL The shortest regularly scheduled flight in the world is 1.7 miles and takes less than two minutes from takeoff to landing.