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TIL a Ultracrepidarian is a person who has a habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one’s knowledge

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Vj9D TIL to obtain tears of the big-eyed lorises, skewers are inserted into the animals anuses and run through their bodies until they exit the mouth, the still-living animals are then roasted over a fire and the tears that stream from their eyes are collected and used in traditional Asian medicine.
DQ7jY TIL the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Nazi Germany caused about 17 German deaths, but as many as 13,000 Jewish residents killed, and resulted in the remaining 50,000 residents being sent to camps
kORgW TIL that in 1969, at the height of the Cold War, the Apollo 11 crew carried commemorative medals to the moon to honor two Soviet cosmonauts who died as part of the USSR's human spaceflight program
wLPLP TIL that ancient Hawaii had no native pottery due to a lack of suitable clay
OG0ZX TIL that golfer Brooks Koepka (born 1990) is the first golfer born after 1975 to win 5 major championships.