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TIL Points for Deer refer to the number of actual protrusions or “points” on a rack of antlers.

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PDO TIL that a plane crashed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 20 people, because everyone onboard ran to one end of the plane and it became severely imbalanced. Why did they do this?-They were fleeing a crocodile! Also the croc survived the crash
yxMX TIL the word “robot” was first used in a 1920 play and was derived from the Slavic word for “slave labor.”
RRvQ TIL there are 24 hours in a day because the Egyptians counted in base 12, not base 10 like we do today. They counted finger joints instead of fingers.
6EMym TIL there is a town in Nebraska called Monowi with a population of one. The only resident is a woman, Eiler who is the mayor, clerk, treasurer, librarian, bartender and the only person left in the US’ tiniest town.
54j8 TIL In 2013 a group of Neo Nazis tried to create a compound near a small town in North Dakota. Several local Native American grandmothers raided one of the Neo Nazi rallies and stole their Nazi flag, then burned it.