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TIL: Americans and Germans Fought Together in a battle in WWII

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J1rZ8 TIL that each 1 step on the moment magnitude earthquake scale is 10^1.5 ≈ 31.62 times apart energetically, and thus every 2 steps are 10^3 = 1,000 apart while each fraction of a step is 10^(1.5*fraction) apart, e.g. a 5.4 earthquake is 10^0.6 ≈ 3.98 times more energetic than a 5.0 earthquake.
Y7Mmv TIL of the jockey Frank Hayes. Never previously winning a race before, he is the only known jockey to have died mid race remaining on the horse and winning.
8e6nL TIL that a rapper, Wu-Tang offiliated - opted to chop his own penis off. And did so.
vD78 TIL An April Fool’s Day Joke on the BBC resulted in a number of people contacting them in order to discover how they could grow their own Spaghetti Trees. At the time, Spaghetti was fairly unknown in the UK. It is regarded as one of the biggest hoaxes ever from a reputable news establishment.
RLrQ TIL that an Australian man named James Harrison was found to have an unusual plasma composition in his blood that has been used to make a treatment for Rhesus disease. He has made over 1000 donations throughout his lifetime, and these donations are estimated to have saved over two million lives.