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TIL that non-naked mole rats do exist.

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e04VE TIL about grain entrapment where farmers get engulfed in grain in silos and quite often die.
1D78 TIL the inventor of leaded gasoline also invented Freon. Thomas Midgley, Jr. possessed “an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny.” and “had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history.”
QJXK6 TIL there are over 40,000 unclaimed bodies in morgues across America. Families often don't show up and claim the bodies because they can't afford a funeral for them. They are later buried in mass graves.
R7bx7 TIL in 2009 a man dressed as Santa robbed a Tennessee bank claiming he needed the money to "pay his elves"
j66aE TIL James Caan improvised scenes while filming The Godfather. He broke the FBI character's camera after getting genuinely heated. From his upbringing, he instinctively pulled out money to pay for the damages and walked away.