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TIL The axial tilt of the earth is changing due to ice caps melting, causing changes in weight distribution across the surface of the planet.

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4M6R TIL The United States stands Alone With South Sudan as the Only Two Countries in the World That Have Not Signed The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Primarily Because it Forbids Execution and Life Imprisonment for Minors
x69Dk TIL When former Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss was accused at his trial of murdering three and a half million people, he replied, "No. Only two and one half million—the rest died from disease and starvation."
MJ9K TIL: Hundreds of Dodge Chargers were destroyed during filming of “The Dukes of Hazard”. This created such a shortage of available cars that by the final season they had to resort to using a radio controlled miniature.
og7r TIL Lyudmila Pavlyuchenko is regarded as the most successful female sniper in history, credited with 309 kills during WWII
yGoa TIL that cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev has traveled 0.02 seconds into the future. The theory of relativity states that time will slow down for an object as its velocity increases. By orbiting at 27,360 km/h for 747 days aboard the Mir space station, Avdeyev aged 0.02 seconds less than people on Earth.