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TIL the inside of a cucumber can be 20 degrees cooler than outside - ‘cool as a cucumber’.

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EBW7 TIL Former US Navy Seal hero Chris Kyle claimed in his book the the US Government sent him to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina to kill looters, he claims he sat on top of the Superdome and killed 30 people.
Me40V TIL in 1988, King Hussein of Jordan arbitrarily and without notice revoked the citizenship of tens of thousands of Arabs living in the West Bank, in violation of international and Jordanian law
WkBwo TIL In Soviet Russia, the director of the state-run TV channel was fired after playing the pop song "Moskau" by the German band Dschinghis Khan during a New Year show.
P1P5J TIL That Christopher Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, sank on Christmas Day 1492 and the salvaged timbers were later used to construct a fort named La Navidad.
yQyXl TIL that the most prolific mathematician in history, Paul Erdos, took amphetamines for the last 30 years of his life to fuel 18 hour working days. Once he was challenged to stay off the Benzedrine for a month - he succeeded but said “Mathematics has now been set back a whole month.”