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TIL in Hinduism the world is destroyed every few billion years in a flood. A family chosen by god survives on a boat with two of every animal.

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rNRo0 TIL that director Christopher Nolan's brother Matthew was alleged to be a contract killer who kidnapped and tortured an accountant to death in Costa Rica. While being held in a secure prison tower in Chicago, Matthew concocted an elaborate escape attempt using a razor, a harness, and a 31-foot rope.
wQJY TIL that all “Granny Smith” Apple trees are clones (grafted not grown) of a single tree in Australia.
XAWP TIL during WWII, the first Conscientious Objector to win the Medal of Honor was a man named Desmond Doss. He refused to carry a weapon into battle, instead earning the medal for saving dozens of men under direct fire, even after being badly wounded himself.
JYWBm TIL that Danny Boyle relied mostly on the honesty of his volunteer cast to "save the surprise" of the London 2012 opening ceremony
NX8bb TIL that researchers Limb, Limb, Limb, and Limb, in a study of doctors, figured out that doctors tend to choose a specialization that fit their surnames, alias nominative determinism (ie. Dr. Gore the surgeon)