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TIL the actual normal human body temperature is 97.9 °F, not 98.6 °F (as is commonly cited), because someone rounded before converting their units.

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rjBe TIL in 2007, a nine-year-old Jack Russell Terrier named George sacrificed himself to save five children from an attack by two Pit Bulls. All three dogs had to be euthanized, but George was posthumously awarded a PDSA Gold Medal and his heroism was commemorated with a bronze statue.
nlrb TIL: A 2700 year old bag of weed was found in a grave.
mQep TIL of Heinz Heydrich, the younger brother of Reinhard Heydrich (the architect of the Holocaust), who helped Jews escape Germany by forging identity documents
KdN6 TIL that Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus in approximately the same amount of time the average student learns it in University.
veW8 TIL that the airport security question “Did you pack your bags yourself?” became mandatory thanks to an Irish girl named Anne-Marie Murphy whose bags were packed with by her terrorist boyfriend.