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TIL Honey Nut Cheerios do not, in fact, contain Nuts.

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NxM6 TIL that on hearing about Kristallnacht , Kaiser Willhelm II said from his exile “For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.”
0dQjj TIL 50-200 airway fires, or oxygen/anesthesia combustion in the patient's trachea, occur each year in the United States
4vBo TIL in 1968 Kim Il Sung sent 31 commandos to South Korea to try and assassinate the president. After they infiltrated the border they stumbled on two brothers chopping firewood. They decided to indoctrinate them about the benefits of communism and release them. The brothers notified the police
rJoM TIL Two paragliders were sucked into a thunderstorm during practice. The updraft was so powerful that one pilot was sucked up to 19,000 feet and killed by a lightning strike. The pilot of the second glider passed out from the altitude, but woke up still airborne and covered in ice.
lGDK TIL The USA Conducted an Experiment in 1964 Where They Gathered 3 Young Physics Students, and Gave Them a Salary, and All Publicly Available Documents on Nuclear Weapons, and Told Them to Build an Atomic Bomb. They succeeded.