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TIL the famous Wiggles hand gesture was created due to child safety concerns. The gesture ensures that their hands are visible at all times in all photos.

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45pR TIL Of the Malasyian exploding ant. An ant that can self destruct and explode to take down enemies.
1xPP TIL the influenza epidemic of 1918 was so bad that it caused average life expectancy in the US to drop 12 years
5pjB TIL of Berthe Mayne, a Belgian singer who claimed to her family to have survived the sinking of the Titanic, traveling 1st class under an alias as the mistress of a young Canadian millionaire. No one believed her until after her death, when her belongings and correspondence corroborated the story.
KOrOQ TIL that people with German ethnicity were expelled from eastern Europe the years after WW2. Approximately 12 million people were forcefully transferred, with between 500,000 to 2 million dying in the process. This event have been called a democide, or even a genocide, by some historians.
D1vLV TIL that in 2016 Belgian cyclist Femke Van den Driessche was discovered to have a hidden motor in her bicycle, the first proven instance of "Mechanical Doping"