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TIL the Samson Option - If Israel’s existence as a state is ever threatened militarily, they plan to take the whole world with them.

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K799 TIL that Gandhi often slept and bathed naked with other women – including a grandniece and the wife of his grandnephew, who were both 18 when they started sleeping in the same bed as Gandhi, who was 77 years old at the time.
GA6DG TIL the equinox has a related phenomenon: the equilux. The equinoxes are the days when the equator is at its closest point to the sun. Locally, however, some days before or after an equinox is when daylight and darkness specifically are closest to equal. This is the equilux.
5YO1k TIL that during an experiment, chemist Karen Wetterhahn accidentally spilled two drops of organic mercury on her hand. That small amount of mercury would kill her in less than a year, despite her wearing gloves at the time and taking appropriate measures to clean herself up.
8aG9G TIL In 1975 a 17 year old boy was killed while riding his moped. He was killed exactly a year after his 17 year old brother was killed while riding the same moped, in the same intersection, by the same taxi, with the same driver, carrying the same passenger
p8LaN TIL Indonesia is the world’s largest island nation it contains thousands and thousands of islands. Indonesia has so many islands it has never been able to fully count or name them. Indonesia is embarking on an ambitious island census to count the islands and registering their names.