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TIL All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.
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TIL National Geographic started delivering its magazines in a paper rather than plastic wrapper, saving more than 2.5 million single-use plastic bags every month. They also challenged all their international partners to get rid of plastic wrappers by end of 2019
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TIL Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific in 1947 in a self-built raft to prove ancient people could have made contact between the continents
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TIL about Ewa Wisnierska, a paraglider who fell unconscious after being sucked into a cumulonimbus cloud (totaling 33.000ft) during a thunderstorm. She survived and was virtually unharmed.
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TIL that today is National Ass Day
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TIL The Japanese military used plague-infected fleas and flies, covered in cholera, to infect the population of China. They were spread using low-flying planes and with bombs containing mixtures of insects and disease. 440,000 people died as a result.