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TIL In May 2016, a swarm of 20,000 bees followed a grandma's car for two days as their queen was stuck inside

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j6GEQ TIL Shortly before Paris was captured by the Nazis in 1940, French engineers cut the lift cables to the Eiffel Tower. German soldiers had to climb the entire tower in order to hoist their flag... which blew away after just few hours. Hitler himself was unable to make the climb when he visited.
E5wd TIL that over 2,000 children under the age of 5 die daily due to a lack of clean drinking water.
QJdZ9 TIL There is a polar bear jail in Manitoba for "troublesome or dangerous" bears
OogE1 TIL Norwegian guards working at Nazi prison camps in northern Norway were so brutal that it shocked the German SS soldiers supervising them. The German officers were so unnerved that they removed these guards from active service and others were jailed.
D0DY TIL there is a type of video photography that makes real life look like highly detailed miniatures. It’s called Tilt-Shift Photography, and it looks uncanny.