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TIL Not everyone on the Hindenburg died. Over half of the passengers actually survived

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GAJVJ TIL Potatoes are not indigenous to Ireland. They were cultivated by the Incas circa 8000 BC and first brought to Europe by the Spanish in the 16th century.
16WZ4 TIL: William Daniels (Mr. Feeney in Boy Meets World) is the voice of K.I.T.T. the car in the 80s series Knightrider.
KYyBQ TIL in the early 90s, when actor Anthony Hopkins's agent told him that a script was on his way titled The Silence of the Lambs, Hopkins responded, "Is it a children's story?"
VMAaB TIL that a speices of eastern african baboon and Ethiopian wolf are working together in what appears to be the early signs of domestication. The wolves show a large increase in foraging and food supply amongst the herds of the baboons.
DG9V TIL that the most densely populated area to ever exist on earth was a largely self-governed, crime-infested block in Hong Kong. Called Kowloon Walled City, it had a population density of 1,255,000 people per square kilometer