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TIL It is illegal in 17 countries to deny the Holocaust

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obKK TIL of Maurice Wilson, who in 1934 died in an attempt to climb Mount Everest by flying halfway around the world, crash-landing on the mountain, and then walking to the summit despite having no experience in either mountaineering or aviation.
D1B5P TIL: A person with disconnected brain hemispheres can develop 2 separate "consciousnesses" which can disagree with each other and physically impede the other hemisphere's actions.
4kNng TIL the NOAA gives financial awards to shipping lines who reduce vessel speed to protect whales
kbD1 TIL that in 2016, two recreational divers in Israel stumbled upon a Roman shipwreck filled with bronze statues and coins featuring Constantine the Great. Estimated to be 1,600 years old, archaeologists called the discovery ‘The Biggest Find in 30 Years’
Bvwe TIL that the FBI tried to infiltrate a mosque in Irvine by sending one of their agents to incite terrorism. The people of the mosque reported him to the FBI instead.