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TIL Nikola Tesla did not believe in the existence of electrons

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xeL5 TIL that two fox reporters got fired for revealing the health dangers in milk
Me007 TIL The "Florida Man" phenomena is in part due to the state's extremely transparent open records laws. Reporters have uniquely easy access to police reports, making it easy to write crime stories.
kO59m TIL of the Battle for Texel, the last european battle of World War 2.
KOgx4 TIL that instead of generating a fever themselves, cold-blooded animals will move themselves to a hotter area to cause a fever when they have an infection
kAeg TIL Kazakhstan was the last nation to leave the Soviet Union on December 16, 1991, four days after Russia left