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TIL a man with an unusually tiny brain managed to live a very normal life

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rNRPx TIL that In 1959, Turkish Prime Minister at that time had plane crash while on his way to London to sign the London Agreement on the Cyprus issue, survived from the wreckage and signed the agreement in hospital some days later.
pZ1b TIL an artist built a 750 square foot apartment in the parking garage of a Providence, RI mall. He inhabited it off and on for four years until he was discovered by mall security.
R7jY9 TIL that Germany has one of the lowest Home Ownership rates in Europe at 51.5% as of 2018
ne5NW TIL the word "Ye" on nostalgic signs (Ye Old Tavern, etc) is supposed to be a Middle-English translation of "The". However, Ye was never actually a word- a character called a Thorn (þ) made a "TH" sound, so it would be spelled 'þe Old Tavern', reading as 'The Old Tavern.'
Xd9j TIL of Bombardier beetles who shoot boiling chemicals at predators by having internal explosions from mixing 2 chemicals.