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TIL that the Shriners (known for the Shriners Hospitals) are a body of Freemasons dedicated to Fun, Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth.

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BwJL TIL Hitler slept until noon on D-Day, and thought the invasion was great news. He had such confidence in his troops that he welcomed the invasion as his best chance to defeat the allies and win the war.
R4lw TIL that a red blood cell can make a complete circuit of your body in 20 seconds
V4G4 TIL there is an unaired Mythbusters episode. Groups of mice were used to test if “the box is more nutritious than the cereal”. The mice in one of the groups were eating “pallets of cardboard”. One day they checked and there were no longer 3 mice in that group, but 1 really fat mouse.
WknmY TIL of the "national bathtub", a mass execution during the French Revolution when thousands of suspected royalists were drowned in the river Loire. At first, the perpetrators carried the drownings at night to avoid suspicion, but the dozen of floating bodies in the following days gave them away.
9EmX TIL Google hired a Camel to map a desert for Google StreetView