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TIL A survivor of Auschwitz is looking for his missing twin on Facebook.

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ZodD TIL that a musical work was so disturbing that it almost caused a riot, with “yells for the music to stop, mixed with applause to hasten the end of the piece.” One performer recalled: “One woman … repeatedly banged her head on the front of the stage, wailing ‘Stop, stop, I confess.’”
m1KOO TIL in 1972 a meteor grazed the earth atmosphere and in doing so changes its trajectory, scientist predicted the meteor would come back to earth in 1997 but never did, so the object's trajectory and position remains unknown.
An4n TIL that blue whales can weigh as much as 300,000 lbs; with their tongue weighing as much as an elephant and their hearts weighing as much as a car.
Z8xAD TIL the last words of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, “I’m bored with it all.” Spoken after suffering a stroke at age 90.
dDwm8 TIL Osedax worms use acid to bore into shark and whale bones and teeth once they are shed or in carcasses, and rely on symbiotic bacteria to release nutrients the worms can absorb. The females reproduce continuously. 100s of dwarf males live inside a female's surrounding tube.