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TIL the shape of chainsaw teeth are based on the mandibles of wood-boring beetle larvae.

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X0vBj TIL in 2019 a pair of knickers from Hitler's wife Eva Braun sold for £3,700
womNJ TIL 5-star hotels in Asia are required to offer free toothpaste to guests. This requirement does not apply in the US, where even some prisoners have to pay for toothpaste at the commissary.
nWkj9 TIL It's been 13 years since a new country was added to the world map, marking the longest period in modern history without the formation of any new nations.
Y7KPA TIL that the anarchist Jean Crones poisoned the Mayor of Chicago, the Governor of Illinois, and 300 other powerful figures with arsenic laced soup in 1916
X0XX8 TIL a clown saved 300 children during the deadliest avalanche in history. Only 400 people survived out of around 18,000 in the town of Yungay, Peru. The children were attending a circus and a clown led them to higher ground moments before the avalanche destroyed the entire town.