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TIL that someone named their twins Winner and Loser. Winner went on to become a criminal, and Loser became a detective.

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w8AJ TIL that the oldest human being to ever live smoked for 96 years, drank alcohol frequently, and ate more than 2 pounds of chocolate a week.
e0yJ4 TIL Benito Mussolini signed Vatican City into existence. The 1929 Lateran Treaty ended the dispute between the Italian government & the Catholic Church, which allowed the Vatican to exist as its own sovereign state and compensated the church $92 million (> $1 billion today) for the Papal states.
x6Mv1 TIL that on the 30th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square Massacre in 2021, searches for the Tank Man image and videos were censored by Microsoft's Bing search engine worldwide. Microsoft said the issue was "due to an accidental human error".
awG6L TIL the hobbits did not descend from Homo Sapiens but were some kin of Homo Habilis who lived in Africa 1.75 million years ago
Maw0 TIL: Neerja Bhanot, a 22-year-old Indian air hostess who helped hide 41 American passports aboard a hijacked plane. She died shielding three children from gunfire and was posthumously awarded bravery medals from India, Pakistan, and the United States.