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TIL Adolf Hitler survived over 20 documented assassination attempts mostly from people who served him

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OGZR4 TIL Muhammad is the most popular name in the world, by 2014 it was estimated to have been given to 150 million men and boys.
YpgMx TIL that 620 million years ago there were only 21.9 hours in a day, and 400 days in a year.
yQRkJ TIL that more than 80% of amputees can still feel their missing limb for up to 3 years after amputation
0wQBL TIL Cyclones, typhoons and hurricanes are essentially the same thing. They have different names because each of them occurs in a specific oceanic location on Earth.
b6B8Q TIL: In the 1950s, the Army to built a bunker close to Washington DC so that Congress could go there if there was a nuclear attack. Engineers built a facility 700 ft below a golf course - 2 stories and over 100,000 sq ft - kept secret until 1992, when the Washington Post revealed its existence.