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

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E9dd TIL that at least one third of all duck sex is forced, and female ducks are constantly evolving ways to not get pregnant from constant rape.
LEG0 TIL that Croatia voluntarily joined Nazi Germany in WW2 and perpetuated a now largely-forgotten Holocaust of Serbs and Jews in Yugoslavia. Their methods of genocide were so brutal that even the Nazis had to tell the Croatians to stop.
prb4 TIL that George Washington was bled to death by doctors who were treating him for a cold. Bloodletting was a common medical practice at the time in order to remove “dirty blood,” when in reality it only weakens the patient. Half or more of his blood was removed within a few hours.
R5npl TIL: Leif Erikson is regarded as the first European to land in North America, nearly 500 years before Columbus.
RPEQ TIL that a man sued Pepsi when he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew. Pepsi attorneys stated that Mountain Dew will dissolve a mouse in 30 days, and showed his can was purchased 74 days after being manufactured.