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TIL Charles Darwin received 4,000 votes on last weeks election.

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e0BXL TIL William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy shared a scene in a 1964 episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." - and both had forgotten by the time they first met on the set of Star Trek.
R76xw TIL that the CDC is based in Atlanta because it was started to fight malaria in the South. It did this by spraying homes (inside and outside) with DDT and draining wetlands. Starting in 1946, malaria was eradicated in the US by 1951.
Egl7V TIL Steven Spielberg is the most thanked person at the Oscars. Beating family, friends and God.
nyOr TIL that an Australian dog named “Bob the Railway Dog” would jump from train to train, even whilst they were both moving, and traveled as he wished using the South Australian Railways.
x6KE7 TIL in WW2, when Germans captured a British bomber tail gunner who claimed that he had jumped out of his plane at 5500m without a parachute, they investigated and confirmed his claim and gave him a certificate to confirm his story.