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TIL A Canadian who flew a Spitfire in WWII kept his Military history secret for 56 years because a fire destroyed his log books and uniforms.

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5d4R TIL Canadian botanist Charles Budd Robinson was killed due to his bad language skill. When he asked a village boy to chop down a coconut (kelapa), he mistakenly asked the boy to chop down a head (kepala). The villagers mistook him for a headhunter and killed him.
doXZ TIL Issac Newton invented the ridges along the edges of coins, still in use today, to prevent theft
P1lXg TIL: Australia is wider than the moon.
Vda4 TIL Cheese is the most stolen food in the world
BvWd TIL that there is a strong correlation between the display of middle initials and positive evaluation of intellectual capacity and social status.