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TIL Kassandra in Greek mythology was a Trojan priestess dedicated and cursed by god Apollo to utter true prophecies but never to be believed. Her name is used as a rhetorical device to indicate a person whose accurate prophecies, generally of impending disaster, are not believed by anyone.

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M7g4B Today I learned that trampoline safety nets were invented in 1997, but by 2006 80% of new trampolines sold had nets.
bd77 TIL a four year old boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing on a family trip, 8 months later he was found and reunited with his family. Nearly 100 years later, DNA proved that the child reunited with the Dunbar family was not Bobby but rather a boy named Charles Anderson
gQ74 TIL American POWs captured 2 days after Hiroshima bomb were rescued from angry mob by Japanese police captain, then discovered over a dozen US POWs had perished.
LkXnm TIL about the world's smallest feline, the Rusty Spotted Cat. It has been known of for a while but very rarely filmed.
j6pdR TIL the great mathematician Leonhard Euler once believed the Earth was falling into the sun "where it would necessarily be burnt."