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TIL that deer in the Czech Republic don’t cross into Germany, following the example of parents who learned to avoid the electrified fence there during the Cold War

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LQwO9 TIL First Lady of the Confederacy Varina Davis did not support slavery, supported women's suffrage, and always thought the Confederacy was doomed to lose the war. Her tenure as First Lady was described as, "a disaster," mostly because people noticed her ambivalence to the role.
KOMrG TIL the “call of the void” is the name of a common feeling you experience when you are in a high place and get thoughts of jumping when you do not actually want to jump
W71w4 TIL that 200 students received "graduataion" diplomas in 2012. Spring Creek High School in Nevada received the misspelled documents from Jostens, which quickly sent corrected diplomas by mail to the students.
pm0p TIL That the pit of death in ‘300’ actually exists.
nW7yY TIL that many opal stones are actually made up of fossilized marine microbes, including diatoms and radiolarians.