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TIL Over 2000 years ago, Eratosthenes of Cyrene managed to calculate the Earth’s circumference without ever leaving Egypt and he was accurate to within 2%

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9Vnm TIL that Germany’s racing color is silver because one of their cars was barely overweight, so they just scrapped the paint off leaving the silver body. The car won and the color stuck.
4kMbw TIL The only plane permitted to fly on 9/11 after the attacks was a plane flying from San Diego to Miami to deliver anti-venom to a man bitten by a highly poisonous snake; it was escorted by two fighter jets
W7pmL TIL about Eugene Lazowski, a Polish doctor who saved 8,000 people from being sent to Nazi death camps by injecting them with a solution that mimics a typhus infection.
yQpBe TIL After Ford left the White House in 1977, he privately justified his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States, a Supreme Court decision which states that a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and that acceptance carries a confession of guilt.
8n7b TIL in 1956, a magician was performing the “cut a person in half” trick using his wife for a televised performance. Immediately after she was divided, the host ended the show. People were horrified, thinking she had been killed, but time had just run out on the broadcast.