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TIL that octopuses often collect trinkets and will plunder coins from ancient shipwrecks to fill their homes with

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KOPd9 TIL of Adolfo Kaminsky, a 18 year-old French forger who faked IDs for Jews during WWII. He once worked for 3 days straight to make papers for 300 children until he passed out. He kept his work a secret - his own daughter only learned the details while writing a book about him.
m18xO TIL that Ohm's law (Voltage=Current*Resistance) was rejected by the German scientific/education community for over a decade after Georg Ohm published his research
GYm6Q TIL that after adding up federal, state, and local taxes, San Francisco residents have the 9th highest highest marginal tax rate in the world
0wKBN TIL that Ghengis Khan was provoked into invading Persia by a slaughtered merchant caravan and a beheaded diplomat.
xw0b TIL that in September of 2016, 180 million workers in India staged a strike. It was the largest strike in world history, and went virtually uncovered by mainstream news, as they were instead reporting on the iPhone 7 release.