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TIL how alligators survive winters

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E70X TIL that had JFK not been assassinated, the Soviet Union and the U.S. would have created a Space Union which would have resulted in both the US and the Soviet Union landing on the moon together (at 12:11)
E1w77 TIL a Belgian mayor hired a DJ to play a music set as a way to drive out some visiting gypsies with loud music. The plan backfired as the gypsies just came out to party, the mayor received international bad press and, since no one had bothered to pay necessary composers’ rights, a 100 euro fine.
m0Zy TIL that a child was raised in isolation and abuse for 13 years, when she was found she had a mental age equivalent to a 13 month old baby.
W7km4 TIL that the Tartaria conspiracy theory claims that pre-modern architecture such as the Egyptian pyramids and Great Wall of China was constructed by a lost empire more technologically advanced than present civilization
9rDB TIL That card games with “Ace High” became increasingly popular during the French Revolution where it was used as a symbol of the lower class rising in power above royalty.