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TIL the Large Hadron Collider had to be shutdown when a weasel fell into it.

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JYkB8 TIL about ongoing Greek TV show "Light in The Tunnel" which among solving countless muder and missing cases in Greece, was added twice on the Guinness W.R.; once for finding 85 missing persons in the span of 75 episodes and again for finding a woman missing for 58 years, in just 10 minutes
wWBJ TIL one reason there are so many weird stories out of Florida is due to their transparency laws that allow the release crime details to the media immediately
VMEy8 TIL that some chimpanzees have been observed sharpening sticks with their teeth and using them as spears to hunt small mammals.
aMWJ TIL a 2009 study found that as many as 91.4% of children living in the Gaza Strip have moderate to severe PTSD
6xNQ TIL the way Helsinki survived WW2. In 1944 the USSR began a massive air attack on the city to force Finland to leave the war. Finns used fires and searchlights to trick Soviet bombers into dropping bombs outside the city. Russian diplomats were surprised to find an intact Helsinki after the war.