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TIL Karl Marx’s last words were “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.”

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WkXjd TIL that hundreds of US agents during the cold war were caught due to their fake soviet passports. It was later discovered that the staples used in these forged passports were stainless-steel, unlike the soviet ones which corroded very easily.
5Ye8B TIL that a Ugandan mother gave birth to a girl on a flight from Amsterdam to Boston, but the newborn was considered and processed as a Canadian citizen by customs as she happened to be born in Canadian airspace.
9wMQB TIL on a good note: Guitars per capita rising 55x, we have more leisure
k7a7 TIL in 1992 an inflatable bouncy castle took flight with 5 children inside. To save them, a 21 year-old man grabbed one of the trailing ropes, climbed up to the castle 15 metres in the air and pulled each child out, before losing his grip and falling through the canvas roof of a dodgems tent.
R6Dl TIL Eurasians have 1-2% Neanderthal DNA and some Southeast Asians up to 6% Denisovan DNA; moreover, scientists were afraid studying this would justify racism.