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TIL The Hercules Beetle can lift up to 850 times it’s own body weight, making it the strongest creature on Earth for its size

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9w4jG TIL of the Tlatelolco massacre, a student protest that led to hundreds of deaths and thousands of people being injured, after the mexican government had snipers firing at the Mexican Armed Forces to make it appear the protest had turned violent and justify the massacre
krwg TIL that, in the 1908 Olympic flag parade in the UK, the American flag bearer refused to dip the American flag to King Edward VII.
rvge TIL Denton Cooley answered in the affirmative when a lawyer during a trial asked him if he considered himself to be the best heart surgeon in the world. “Don’t you think that’s being rather immodest?” the lawyer replied. "Perhaps,” Cooley responded. “But remember I’m under oath.”
jenN TIL that Cartman’s mom, Liane, is named after Trey Parker’s cheating ex-fiancée, thus the jokes about her promiscuity.
GYnxN TIL that a New York bound flight from LA was forced to make an emergency landing when a woman would not stop singing Whitney Houston's "I will always love you" in midair