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TIL The Wiggles iconic Wiggle Fingers was created as a safe way for people to know where their hands are when interacting with children

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wLddM TIL the Japanese usually leave out most of their history from the early 1900s to WW2 from their high school curriculum.
X0vMR TIL on Easter Sunday someone accessed the GardaWorld cash storage facility in Sylmar & stole $30 million in what's considered the largest heist in Los Angeles history. The culprit managed to breach the facility & then disappear with the loot without anyone noticing until the next day.
Oo9P7 TIL that in the 1970s, an unemployed haulage contractor named Arthur Hickey proposed to turn the Titanic into an iceberg using liquid nitrogen in order to raise her to the surface. It was calculated that this would have required half a million tons of liquid nitrogen.
mxWnR TIL about the nilgai or blue bull (Boselaphus tragocamelus). It is native to the Indian subcontinent, and it is the largest Asian antelope and can weigh up to 635lbs/288kg. Its name comes from Hindi: nil is blue and gai is cow. It is considered sacred by followers of Hindu.
Me6GB TIL: The actual phrase is "Houston, we've had a problem"