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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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W7Xj4 TIL that SOS never actually stood for anything, but instead was a Morse code distress signal that used these letters since they were easy to signal
xV0jB TIL that in 1908 a meteorite hit Russia with hundreds of times more power than an atom bomb, destroying 500,000 acres of forest, knocking ppl over 40 miles away and causing weather events around the globe - but no one was killed and no impact crater was found.
QdZM TIL that in China in 757 during the siege of Suiyang, while they were short of food, the general Zhang Xun ordered his soldiers to kill the civilians in order to feed themselves. At the end of the siege ten months later, 20,000 to 30,000 people were eaten and only 400 were left.
DQYWD TIL Limp Bizkit was the last band to play on top of the World Trade Center in September 2000.
d8KrQ TIL the week of the Russian apartment bombings, 3 FSB agents were arrested for planting a live bomb in an apartment building. They were later released after the head of the FSB claimed it was an exercise.