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TIL that by coincidience, a married couple were photographed at the same place and time at Disney World 15 years before they met. They didn’t even live in the same country when the pic was taken.

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4kp8J TIL that the only sound recordings in existence of someone born in the 18th century speaking, are of Helmuth Von Moltke the German field commander.
Z8QV4 TIL that Japanese Honeybees have adapted to kill Murder Hornets by vibrating together in a ball around the hornet and using their combined body heat to cook it alive
OokeR TIL about Benjamin Bolger, a perpetual student who continuously takes college programs. Currently he has 14 degrees, including schools such as Yale, Harvard, and Stanford.
56r TIL during WWII, 12000 conscientious objectors served the government without pay. Their many jobs included smokejumping into forest fires, being human test subjects, and working at mental hospitals, where their pacifist approach revolutionized the way mental patients were treated.
deQ7 TIL a black man in the mid 1960’s, not allowed to join or play at the local country clubs, built his own golf course using his own land and taught the neighborhood kids golf for free.