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TIL that 60% of NBA players are bankrupt years after retiring

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NKMN TIL That during his last days, Hitler used a Berlin phone directory to determine how the battle was going. He would call a number. If it was answered in Russian he’d hang up. If it was answered in German, he’d ask what the person was seeing.
16VkW TIL None of the native species of bee in Australia are true honey bees. Social species of native bees do produce honey, but not much, as they are relatively primitive bee species. And the bees that do produce honey store it in small resinous pots which look like bunches of grapes
JY6b8 TIL that ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ refers not to depth, but distance travelled whilst submerged
4X7eg TIL on 13th October 1908 Travers Symons escaped from her escort in the Houses of Parliament, burst into the main chamber, interrupted a debate by shouting, & thus became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons. She couldn't be arrested, the police having no power in the Houses of Parliament
wEl7 TIL a man rode his bike from Sweden to Mount Everest, and then tried to summit. He turned around 300 feet from the top.