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TIL that Bumblebees Can Fly Higher Than Mount Everest

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mxVax TIL Files kept secret for 60 years indicate British intelligence may have knowingly sent more than 50 of its own agents to almost certain death in occupied Holland during the Second World War as part of a complicated "double double agent" game played against the Germans.
GAAw1 TIL there is a plaster cast of Jimi Hendrix's penis on display at a museum in Iceland
5YjQ9 TIL that sentences with the sole purpose of annoying the reader exist and are called "garden path sentences". They make you go back and read the sentence again, an example is: "The old man the boat"
0JlA TIL that when a man was still required to pay back child support payments even after the DNA test proved he wasn’t the father, the sympathetic judge set the payments at $1/month for 1000 years, with no interest.
WNON TIL virtually all Middle Ages scholars believed that the Earth is spherical. The myth that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth is flat appears to date from the 17th century as part of the campaign by Protestants against Catholic teaching.