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TIL that troops used wet hemp bales to protect themselves from musket, and even cannon, fire

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4ynN TIL when President Chaim Weizmann died in 1952, Einstein was asked to be Israel’s second president, but he declined, stating that he had “neither the natural ability nor the experience to deal with human beings.”
QJEj9 TIL the producers of The Simpsons considered aborting the series if the second episode’s animation turned out as bad as the first, which was so appalling that after seeing it for the first time, they had to redo 70% of before it could go to air.
vP6Aj TIL about EuroAirport, it's on the triple border and serves France, Switzerland and Germany. The airport is jointly administered by France and Switzerland, governed by a 1949 international convention.
nW6KY Today I learned that only seven seconds elapsed between the opening of his cell and the opening of the trapdoor of the gallows from which James Inglis was hanged, making this the fastest hanging in the history of the United Kingdom.
0yrv TIL of the Darien Gap, a thick rain forested area on the Pan-American highway that prevents people from truly driving across North and South America.