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TIL that it has been scientifically proven that you actually catch more flies with vinegar than you do with honey.

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GDrE TIL that African Elephants have 4-6 sets of teeth in their lifetime, and when the last set wears down, they starve to death
W7wZd TIL of the 5 known assassination attempts on Queen Elizabeth II, the one that came closest to succeeding was attempted by a 17-year-old New Zealander, who shot at her with a .22 calibre rifle, but missed so badly that nobody even realised shots were fired.
OG8E6 TIL that Rio de Janeiro gets the same hours of sun per year as Seattle
VBvpD TIL: about Krystyna Skarbek, a Polish agent of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). She became a British agent months before the SOE was founded in July 1940. She was the first female agent of the British to serve in the field and the longest-serving of all Britain's wartime women agents.
GPKG TIL a man named Jerry Gretzinger has been drawing a map of an imaginary world for over 50 years. He draws from a deck of cards each morning to decide the fate of his hand-drawn world, which is over 2000 square feet in size.