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TIL before realizing his true potential in comedy, Will Ferrell worked as a teller at Wells Fargo; apparently he lost close to $600 in his first two days on the job

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xQD TIL after WWII, the Allies conducted a massive ‘ethnic cleansing’ of German-speaking citizens from certain areas, resulting in app. 500,000 civilian deaths., some as slave laborers in Auschwitz and Theresienstadt, which were kept in operation.
b9rej TIL due to lifestyle changes over the last 150 years, the average human body temperature has decreased from 98.6 Fahrenheit to around 97.5
5MZ8 TIL the biker-gangs who went to fight ISIS last year failed miserably and were eventually asked to go home by the Kurds
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jN4jQ TIL there's a species of wild pigs with tusks that grow up and inwards, curving directly towards their forehead. If the male's tusks aren't worn down by regular use, they will grow until they pierce the skull, killing the boar