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TIL a university maths professor helped a pig farmer prove in court that a hot air balloon startled his pigs causing them to fall into a ditch and die by using trigonometry and a photograph

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xVEj0 TIL that when the US military tried segregating the pubs in Bamber Bridge in 1943, the local Englishmen instead decided to hang up "Black soldiers only" signs on all pubs as protest
7rp9O TIL That the 1961 Lincoln Continental Limousine that JFK was assassinated in was taken back to the motor-pool, cleaned up, reinforced and rotated back into service with the US Government until 1977
0wVYA TIL about 'Gegenschein', a very faint glow in the night sky exactly opposite of the Sun, caused by the backscatter of sunlight by interplanetary dust.
65xW TIL women on average actually get in more accidents per mile than men, but men are far more likely to be in fatal accidents
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