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TIL a man at Auschwitz voluntarily stepped in to die for a complete stranger, the man he replaced went on to live another 53 years

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9YZJm TIL In 2008, a British man was arrested for drug possession in Dubai after 0.003 grams of marijuana were detected in his shoe.
5VVJ8 TIL “Electric Eye” by heavy metal band Judas Priest was in the temp score for “Toy Story 3”. Before it was cut, the song blared from the Aliens’ car in the opening scene. The song’s lyrics describe a satellite watching a surveillance state, foreshadowing (intentionally or not) the movie’s plot.
GYrwQ TIL that when Rolls-Royce was privatised in 1987, a marketing survey showed that it was the second most widely known brand in the world (after only Coca-Cola)
9X6p TIL that in in the 1970s professional 10 pin bowlers made twice as much as NFL players.
Zp5Za TIL Newton tested the theory of gravitation involving the moon and Earth but found a discrepancy so large that he did not publish it. Six years later, a new measurement of the size of the Earth and distance of the moon came out and Newton recalculated again to show his theory worked