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TIL that Groundhog Day was introduced to America by German settlers who originally used a hedgehog to predict the weather, switching to the groundhog as they were easier to come across in the Keystone State.

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wW18 TIL in 2010 Paul the Octopus, from a German aquarium in Oberhausen, correctly predicted every single World Cup match outcome for the German National Team that year. He received death threats when he accurately foresaw their semi-final loss.
4XkW6 TIL after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti the Red Cross raised half a billion dollars and allegedly only built 6 homes
NGD1 TIL when Uma Thurman’s character in Pulp Fiction (1994) describes the female cast of the pilot show Fox Force Five, she is foreshadowing the movie Kill Bill (2003)
a6mL TIL- Killer Peter Kurten, the so-called Vampire of Dusseldorf asked the prison psychiatrist shortly before he was executed by guillotine, : “Tell me, after my head has been chopped off will I still be able to hear; at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck?”
7yXb TIL that a man in Saudi Arabia installed a fridge on the street and stocks it with free food for the homeless people in his neighborhood.