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TIL a Victorian undertaker inadvertently launched the first Low Carb diet craze

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nZRW TIL that in 2009 armed robbers used a helicopter to abseil onto the roof of a cash depot in Sweden. The cash was dropped into a local lake where it was picked up boat. To deter police the robbers used caltrops on local roads and fake IED’s on the police helicopters to keep them grounded.
7eab TIL a Berkeley student named George Dantzig once mistook two unproved theorems that his professor wrote on the chalkboard as a homework assignment and ended up solving both within a few days
lbWN TIL That just under 7/8 of the land on Earth is on one half of the planet. Called “The Land Hemisphere” The other side of the Earth being “The Water Hemisphere”.
nWed TIL a technique called “circular breathing” allowed a saxophone player to hold an E-flat for 45 minutes and 47 seconds.
xVk5 TIL that in 1994 a stimulant was synthesised that can keep you awake for 48hrs at a time, without the need for catchup sleep and minimal side effects. It is only prescribed for narcolepsy but it has been suggested that it is used in the military to keep soldiers awake.