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TIL Oprah wasn't always Oprah: Her birth name was Orpah Gail Winfrey, but people didn't know how to spell or pronounce Orpah, so they switched the p before the r and the name stuck

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a8vny Today I Learned of the Lost Battalion in WW1, an American unit who was surrounded for 6 days after pushing too far forward into German lines, subject to friendly artillery fire and their only contact was via carrier pigeon
W71xd TIL that excess human food is harmful to wildlife. So we can't just dump all the leftovers into a forest or something and let them do whatever with it, choosing landfills and even poisoning supermarket dumpsters instead...
woA01 TIL that a group of college students once used physics to beat Las Vegas’ infamous roulette machine with a machine in their shoe, giving them over a 20% advantage over the house when working.
ALm7 TIL A set of British twins separated at birth and raised by different adopted parents, fell in love and got married only to realise that they were brother and sister
R7QMl TIL that goosebumps made our ancestors appear bigger to the predators, since we used to have more body hair