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TIL that Paris Hilton was robbed for millions in jewels by a bunch of teenagers. She had left her mansion unlocked with no one home. She didn’t notice the robbery for weeks.

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16n84 TIL: Gouda cheese is pronounced "how dah"
1aPgX TIL that long-beaked echidnas have four-headed penises and are known as monotremes, meaning egg laying mammals. This perhaps hints at early mammalian evolution from reptiles. These guys are sadly critically endangered owing to habitat loss!
KBgR TIL when Alan Shepard was waiting for liftoff to become the first American in space, reporters asked him what he was thinking about. He replied “The fact that every part of this ship was built by the lowest bidder.”
rRXvy TIL that during WWII, the Germans and the British independently discovered that they could use thin aluminum strips dropped from planes to jam enemy radar, but both sides refused to use this for over a year for fear the other would figure out the technique
LPkp TIL that in 1976 Olympic relay the flame was transmitted as a radio signal from Greece to Canada, triggering a laser beam to relight the fire.