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TIL People knew that the Earth was round in Columbus’ times. They just wouldn’t give him a charter for a voyage because they knew that Asia was much further away than he thought.

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O0L1 TIL In the 50’s, the CIA tried to assassinate Fidel Castro by slipping an exploding cigar into his private supply
Vk5k TIL that a Thai woman accidentally slipped on “farmyard mud,” grabbed a naked live wire and got electrocuted to death. After the funeral, her sister was showing her neighbors how the accident happened when she herself slipped, grabbed the same live wire and also got electrocuted to death.
rNYww TIL that Uranus’s poles get 42 years of continuous darkness and then sunlight. This is due to the axial tilt of 97.77 degrees (Earth is 23.4 degrees)
EgWOP TIL the US Navy strapped cameras onto dolphins, revealing incredible hunting techniques and behaviors, including suction feeding like a vacuum cleaner.
rRL00 TIL that you are more likely to die of natural hazards such as snake bites or bushfire than homicide in Australia.