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TIL that there are 10^10^10^122 number of parallel universes with different laws of physics, different dimensions or even with different colours which we can't see.

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6k8J TIL in 1775, about 70 years after the last Dodo’s death, the director of Oxford’s Natural History museum decided the museum’s stuffed Dodo was becoming too tattered and ordered it burned. A passing employee noticed and rescued a head and a limb. This is the last remainder of an actual dodo we have.
e6PE TIL the RMS Olympic (sister ship to the titanic) was the only merchant vessel in WW1 to sink an enemy u-boat. It rammed it despite having the speed to steam out of range of the sub.
6EK8Q TIL St. Cassian of Imola was martyred by having the students he was teaching stab him to death with iron styli.
xVpj7 TIL that hydrangeas are nature's pH meters
pNM4 TIL that in a study of domestic violence victims, 40.2% of men who contacted local agencies for help were accused of being the batterer.