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TIL that Bob Dole’s ‘96 election site is still live.
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YVjr
TIL the wheel was invented thousands of years after boats, woven cloth, rope, sewing needles, baskets and even the flute.
QNLea
TIL about the pumpkin toadlet, a tiny Brazilian toad that due to its tiny ear canal makes it terrible at hopping
eBy4
TIL when Pope John XXIII was once asked, “How many people work in the Vatican?” John replied, “About half.”
wnG1
TIL the USSR built a Skynet-like device in the 1980s that would launch a massive nuclear attack without any human intervention if it detected Moscow had been destroyed
oB48R
TIL in 2013 Harrison Okene, a cook aboard a Nigerian tugboat, was the only survivor of a crew of 12 when the boat sank. Trapped 100 feet below the surface, he survived for 72 hours in an air pocket before being rescued by Dutch divers from a nearby oil rig who had been sent in to recover the bodies.