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TIL that swatting a fly without killing it may cause it pain for the rest of its life

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VMO5Q TIL that a French family had a roof leak in 2011. Upon inspection, the culprit turned out to be a 4.5 billion year old meteorite that had smashed through their roof tile. the family's name? Commette.
neY1r TIL B&H Photo, one of the world's biggest audiovisual equipment stores, doesn't take online orders during the weekend. That's because it's run by Satmar Hasidic Jews, who observe Shabbat.
R5wP4 TIL about the poem The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenite, that shows the irregularities of the English language pronunciation.
g91W TIL in 1625 English officers called off an invasion of Spain after their soldiers stopped off at a local winery and got hammered
MKMm TIL In 1861 a slave took over a confederate ship and delivered it to the Union. He later was given the ship to command during the Civil War. After the war he bought the house he was a slave in, and became a US congressman.