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TIL a man named Mani Manithan walked backwards for 25+ years to promote world peace

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Y5eB TIL that the idea of every fingerprint being completely unique is false, as there’s evidence of fingerprints so similar they were able to misguide sensors.
g9p4 TIL while filming ‘Breaking Bad’, actress Julia Minesci who plays Wendy, was approached and propositioned for her services by a non-actor. He had mistaken her for a real prostitute…
wog47 TIL the most successful German u-boat commander—who sank 193 ships and 453,000 tons of material throughout WW1—was known to strictly follow prize law, giving civilian ships adequate time to evacuate on lifeboats and directions to the nearest port
VBWD8 TIL of The Kardashev scale: A 1-4 scale method of ranking planetary civilizations based on how technologically advanced they are. On the scale, humans are currently at mere 0.73
lwea TIL 70% of millionaires do not consider themselves “wealthy”