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TIL: 70,000 people died during the 2003 heatwave in Europe.

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aD9N TIL Ewan Mcgregor’s real life uncle played Wedge Antilles, the only other person aside from Luke Sky walker to survive both death stars
VNYD TIL…In Switzerland it is illegal to own one guinea pig because they are prone to loneliness.
j6GKX TIL about Lucy Salani, who was the only transgender person to have survived imprisonment and torture in the Nazi concentration camps.
wjNJ TIL that the CIA shut down access to the 23rd highest mountain in the world for nearly a decade in the ‘60s because they lost a nuclear powered missile detector in an avalanche
a5RM TIL that in 1978, over 500 silent films were discovered buried in the Yukon permafrost, including footage of the scandalous 1919 World Series.