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TIL Moose attack more people annually than bears and wolves combined.

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QJKJd TIL about Deadline, 1944 sci-fi story about the use of nuclear bomb. It includes topics such as uranium enrichment, methods of isotopic separation and moral questions about the weapon. Author had no knowledge of Manhattan project and came up with the idea from scientific journals.
4leg TIL Victoria cross recipient Charles Smith Rutherford, single-handedly took 45 German soldiers prisoner. After calmly drawing his revolver he managed to convince the enemy that they were surrounded.
Dr1r TIL that ‘Kung-Fu Panda’ (2008) was so successful in China that it caused a national debate on why Westerners made a better film about Chinese culture than the Chinese themselves
NXyR6 TIL Abraham Lincoln was the only president who was also a licensed bartender.
e06v6 TIL in 1862 British merchant Charles Lennox Richardson was killed for getting too close to a Japanese feudal lord. His last words to his travel companions were: "I know how to deal with these people."