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TIL About the Norwegian community of 2,000 people with 151 cases of sex crime

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Zygv TIL 3 Jewish Prisoners escaped Auschwitz in a stolen car while dressed as S.S guards
ADo8x TIL of the Giant Pyrosome; a “free-floating, colonial tunicate that is made of thousands of identical clones, together forming a hollow cylindrical structure that can be 60 feet (18 m) long and wide enough for a person to enter”
jNgOj TIL The Terracotta Army remained underground for more than 2,200 years and was discovered by local farmers while digging a well in 1974 in Xi’an
MLrA TIL butter can safely be kept at room temperature, so that it remains spreadable, if stored in a French butter dish that uses water to omit air.
EbGw TIL that David Eaglemen, a neuroscientist, threw himself and other volunteers down a 150ft drop to observe perception of time as they fell.