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TIL that a “moment” actually is a specific amount of time. About 90 seconds

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Me6n7 TIL About Africville, the black community of Halifax that was purposefully neglected by the city in an effort to make it un-livable. Halifax denied sewage, roads, and other services, even creating a toxic waste dump nearby, eventually Halifax bulldozed the community with people still in their houses
LkNnV TIL when three brothers discovered they were descended from Adolf Hitler's family, they all made a pact to never have children in order to end the Hitler bloodline.
dLB TIL that the US Army during WWII developed a grenade the same size and shape as a baseball, to make it more effective for the soldiers who had grown up playing baseball
P1joZ TIL: There was a fire in one of Titanic's coal rooms prior to the departure from Europe to NY. The fire was not a contributing factor to the ship's sinking.
e0gW5 TIL that Tippi Hedren, the star in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) is now 90 years old and still lives with lions and tigers after she began rescuing them in the early 1970s, according to her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson