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TIL that in the weeks following the 2001 September 11 attacks the children's act The Wiggles were one of the only groups that would perform in New York, which earned them loyalty and respect, as many acts cancelled.

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yQ60J TIL during the 1860's, the Russian empire killed and expelled as much as 80-97% of their entire Circassian population, these events (now known as "The Circassian genocide") are still denied by Russia, and Georgia is the only country to recognize it WORLDWIDE.
jNVMM TIL Martin Short, Steve Martin and Tom Hanks have regular ‘colonoscopy parties’ where they prep together overnight and share one car on the ride to get their colonoscopies the next day
5YXjp TIL that in 1736 the mathematician Leonhard Euler was trying to find a way to cross every single one of the seven bridges of Königsberg exactly once. He realized that this was, in fact, impossible and based on that created a new area of mathematics called Graph Theory.
OWe4 TIL that comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter in 1994, after being broken apart from Jupiter’s tidal gravity. One fragment struck the planet’s surface with the estimated energy of 6 million megatons of TNT (600 times the world’s nuclear arsenal) and created a dark spot over 12,000 km across.
MeXGA TIL that, until recently, the Houston, TX police department regularly used Whataburger order numbers to mark crime scenes.