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TIL that light isn't the fastest thing. The expansion of the universe is significantly faster, perhaps even a million times faster!

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6EomY TIL of Eva Umlauf, a Jew who arrived in Auschwitz at the age of two in 1944. Despite her young age, she was tattooed with her camp number: A26959. Getting it was so painful, that she passed out. Her mother was a digit lower. Eva thinks she was the youngest child to have been tattooed who survived.
oRpx7 TIL: Baby hippos such as Moo Deng, as well as elephants, pandas, and koalas eat their mom's feces. Eating the poop gives their digestive systems the bacteria they need to digest the vegetation which forms an essential part of their diet.
LQgJd TIL a chicken fell off the stage and on top of a cellist during a performance of the opera Boris Godunov in the Sydney Opera House's Joan Sutherland Theatre in the 1980s, which used live chickens in the performance. A net was subsequently installed above the orchestra pit.
v1aQx TIL that Christoper Robin, the kid wich teddy bear inspired the Winnie the Pooh stories, was credited with killing 28 Wehrmacht soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge.
v1187 Turns out, our ancient ancestors' consumption of fermented fruits created a genetic mutation that be the cause of alcoholism in people today.