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TIL About Joginder Singh, an Indian soldier who single-handedly killed 56 people in one battle with a bayonet.

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DQgje TIL that Mu is mythical lost sunken continent that was hypothesized to once have existed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in essence the Pacific's version of Atlantis
OA6g TIL that there’s a phobia called “Panphobia” which is the fear of EVERYTHING. It is said to be caused by ‘a vague and persistent dread of some unknown evil".
5Y0B9 TIL Carleton Gajdusek, who first described the prion disease kuru, had the rare distinction of being a Nobel prizewinner and a convicted child molester. As a medical researcher he studied kuru, an incurable disease that affects the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea, and published 150 papers
negZG TIL that falconers (and trainers of other birds of prey) will sew the eyelids of a wild caught bird shut, slowly allowing them to reopen to imprint themselves. The reopening process takes anywhere from a week to 40 days depending on the bird’s nature and the skill of the trainer
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