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TIL of Last Thursdayism, a belief that the universe was created last Thursday, and it is absolutely impossible to disprove.

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R5vl4 TIL that ice makers in home freezers have a heating element to release the ice cubes from the mold
WkmGo TIL in 1992, Bosnian sportsman Aleksandar Đurić was invited to compete in canoeing at the Barcelona Olympics. The Bosnian Olympic Committee couldn't afford to pay for his travel, so he hitch-hiked his way over 1500 km, including a 2 day trek, and borrowed equipment from the Spanish and Italian teams
WoQB TIL That North Korea imprisons three generations of a Political prisoner’s family.
RA97 TIL of John Leray, a French Mathematician who concealed his proficiency with differential equations to avoid working for the Nazis. While in a POW camp, he developed sheaves, sheaf cohomology, and spectral sequences which are important tools for modern Algebraic Geometry
x6Ak5 TIL a study found that 90% of women said penis width is more important than length for sexual satisfaction