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TIL that Sesame Street's is over 50 years old

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Pjlw TIL of Robert de La Rochefoucauld, a French saboteur during WWII. He once hid explosives inside loaves of bread and blew up a Nazi munitions plant. Captured, he feigned a seizure in his cell and when a guard opened the door, hit him with a table leg, broke his neck, shot 2 other guards and escaped.
m5rP TIL Thomas Jefferson wanted the Constitution to be scrapped and re-written every 19 years
Lkk6d TIL that when a shark is flipped on its back it enters a state of paralysis that lasts for up to fifteen minutes. The phenomenon is known as “Tonic Immobility.” In some cases orcas have been seen maneuvering a shark upside down to induce this paralyzed state.
X0A9X TIL that chimney swifts breed in North America, but their wintering location was unknown in 1944. It was discovered when an indigenous Peruvian was seen wearing a necklace made out of the bands scientists had tied to the birds’ legs to track them.
4Xo0R TIL that cashiers have the 15th safest occupation in the United States but the leading cause of workplace death in that profession is homicide. 39 out of 47 cashier deaths in 2018 were caused by violence from another person