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TIL All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.

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4XN9g 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
wVk7 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
OGEA1 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.
b6m7 TIL that today is National Ass Day
rRGy0 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.