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TIL Stanislav Petrov holds the title as “The man who saved the world” after stopping all out nuclear war

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Ma18 TIL when F. Scott Fitzgerald died, he thought he was a failure, and his work forever forgotten. His novel, The Great Gatsby, was reviewed poorly and had only sold 20,000 copies. It’s now considered the greatest novel in American history, and sells over 500,000 copies per year.
7rAKZ TIL Japanese swordsmiths can only make 2 swords per month due to restrictions put in place after World War II
oWWo TIL the first recorded flight of a human with artificial wings happened in the year 6 CE. Emperor Kao Yang liked to strap kites to his prisoners and throw them off of towers. One lucky guy, Yuan Huang T'ou, got a kite that worked well enough to carry him safely to the ground.
eZdJ TIL we evolved so that our left testicle is lower than our right in order to prevent compression of them in impact
MGWK TIL the 3 snowiest major cities in the world are all in Japan