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TIL that Iranian military arrested 14 squirrels for spying

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rAA4 TIL there was an astronomically unlucky astronomer: His first expedition to India to study the Transit of Venus was thwarted by clouds and war; his second 8 years later by the only cloudy day in months. Upon returning he found that he was legally dead, his wife remarried, and his estate was pilfered
OYwY TIL Ross Perot is “the biggest individual loser ever on the New York Stock Exchange”: in April 1970, he lost $450 million in a single day.
MQQb TIL: PSY sang an anti-American song in 2004 advocating killing American’s daughters/mothers/fathers/etc. painfully. (S.Koreans should be able to confirm this)
7rk7b TIL Alexander Graham Bell was a eugenicist and despite being married to a deaf woman, tried to prevent the use of ASL, in favor of Oralism, and tried to prevent the deaf from marrying each other.
JY77j TIL that New Zealand is a small piece of the 8th continent Zealandia. It is known as a drowned continent.