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TIL that Big Cats go Wild for Calvin Klein Cologne.

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9Y0OM TIL about a tiny strip of Belgian land inside Germany, where there once was a railroad that Belgium was awarded after WW1. Today its a cycling road. But the land still belongs to Belgium and both nations has agreed to keep it that way
v1Y84 TIL Mythbusters hosts Adam and Jamie built a combat robot for the show Robot Wars. It was so effective that it often sent pieces of its opponent's bodywork over the shield walls of the arena into the crowd, and after two fights the show's insurance company deemed the bot "too hazardous" to compete.
vglR TIL China has been running the world’s largest eugenics program for more than thirty years. The BGI Cognitive Genomics Project is currently doing research which has the potential to allow the IQ within every Chinese family to increase by 5 to 15 IQ points per generation.
ero4 TIL That the Democratic party got it’s donkey symbol because Andrew Jackson’s opponents called him a jackass. Which amused him to the point of making the donkey his party’s symbol.
9wK4r TIL that the largest trial in world history was the Maxi Trial against the Sicilian Mafia, that lasted 6 years. Of the 475 mobsters indicted, 338 were convicted and sentenced to a total of 2,665 years, not including life sentences handed to 19 bosses