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TIL the official name for Greece is the ‘Hellenic Republic’

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gr7k9 TIL that a Brazilian priest, as part of a fundraiser, sat in a chair tied to 1,000 balloons and sent himself up. He reached a height almost twice as high as he expected. Two weeks later he was found dead in the ocean.
XEveE TIL that the song My Sharona by the Knack was about a real person; she sells high end real estate today.
78W0r TIL, an object that takes the shape of an object of older technology while using newer technologies with it are called a Skeuomorph
WRkX TIL a man survived in a sunken ship for nearly three days, 270 feet underwater, in pitch darkness, while listening to fish eat the corpses of his shipmates.
xVNZD TIL The Mongols had a unique way of slaughtering animals. The animal was laid on its back, restrained, chest cut open and aorta torn, causing deadly internal bleeding. The process would keep all of the blood inside of the carcass. Then internal organs were removed and blood drained out for sausages.