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Today I learned Forest Gump was based off a book.

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nWjGr TIL that during WW2, German pilots in North Africa would wrap Coca-Cola bottles in wet towels and attach them to the wings before takeoff, so that it would be cold when they landed and needed a drink.
WkZ5N TIL our ancestors standing up and walking on two feet turned social links into a necessary aspect for Survival (and leading to our current society) due to how this position changed some of women's caracteristics (narrower hips).
VMMLQ TIL that roly-poly bugs are not insects at all, they are isopods.
NXYo8 TIL in 1953 US and Britain instigated a coup d'état in Iran which began a period of dissolution for Iranian democracy and society. This eventually led to the Iranian revolution and the creation of an Islamic Republic.
OGMdY TIL that in 1958 an atomic bomb that fell on a farm in South Carolina and didn't detonate, leaving a massive crater sized at 24 feet deep and 50 feet wide.