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TIL that in 1906 when Dr. Alois Alzheimer presented his groundbreaking research on the disease which would later be known as Alzheimer’s Disease, the audience asked zero questions and made zero comments because they simply wanted to hear the next lecture (which was about compulsive masturbation)

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GAj TIL that in 1940 two Australian aircraft collided and stuck together mid-air, and made a safe landing still stuck together.
9Yd8D TIL there are seven people who hold the keys to the worldwide internet security and they meet 4 times a year
VM0Gm TIL in 1830 George Wilson was convicted of robbing a postal carrier and sentenced to hang. He was pardoned by Andrew Jackson. He refused the pardon. The Supreme Court ruled that a pardon could not be forced on him. So they hanged him.
lJw7 TIL that the man who found the Boston Marathon bombing suspect in his boat, received only $1k in compensation from the insurance company for his bullet ridden and confiscated boat (which he never got back.)
p8j5O TIL that the oldest dingo fossils in Australia are about 4,000 years old, so dingoes’ ancestors must have reached Australia by boat. Whole-genome studies consistently place dingoes between wolves and wolflike dog breeds.