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TIL That the bulk of quotations in the Oxford English Dictionary were contributed by a murderer who severed his own penis, using a knife he had employed in his work on the dictionary.

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kOX5g TIL that the first nuclear explosion almost occurred by accident in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Dr. Richard Feynman, a physicist who was working on the Manhattan Project, discovered that the military's "need to know" security resulted in a dangerous amount of uranium nitrate being stored with uranium-235.
pdae TIL there is a group of women who were the last to be born into China’s foot binding culture, residing in a small village in the Yunnan province. In their 80’s and 90’s, they tell their stories so we will not forget them.
9wNEM TIL Dolphins have been trained to be used in wars as killers and even suicide bombers...
oLMA TIL Hollywood father-son duo Sean Connery and Harrison Ford are only 12 years apart in age.
j4Ma TIL when Jack Nicholson was asked for a comment immediately following Heath Ledger’s death, he replied: “Well, I warned him.”