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TIL Saturn, the 6th planet from the Sun, has a giant 6-sided polygon (larger than the Earth) situated at its north pole. Coincidence?

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dD0dB TIL that in 2014 an 8 year old girl found her entire family dead after they were poisoned by gas from rotting potatoes
Or1 TIL that the more than 100,000 people working on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge Tennessee in the 1940s had no idea what they were working on. It wasn’t until the local newspaper printed the bombing of Hiroshima were the workers told what they had been working on for the last several years.
gW8 TIL That Americans Are As Likely to Be Killed by Their Own Furniture As by Terrorism
ogY7 TIL that in World War 2 Germany captured France with a loss of only 27,000 soldiers. Germany lost over 143,000 alone at the battle of Verdun in France during World War One several decades earlier.
Lko5m TIL when Japanese pole vaulters Shuhei Nishida and Sueo Oe tied for silver at the 1936 Olympics they refused a tie-breaker. The silver was arbitrarily awarded to Nishida. They had their medals cut in half and then welded together so they each had one "friendship medal" of half silver, half bronze.