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TIL Hurricane Helene is the 5th costliest hurricane to hit the US, even more expensive than Superstorm Sandy

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ayeo TIL of Captain Mbaye Diagne, a Senegalese unarmed military observer with the UN during the Rwandan Genocide. Alone and against orders, he used his UN vehicle to ferry hundreds of Tutsis and moderate Hutus to safety, bluffing, bribing and begging his way through checkpoints manned by génocidaires.
lLDN TIL When trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that that “women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and that their “uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies if they were accelerated to that speed.”
neZR9 TIL that nipple piercings were a fad during the Victorian era
R5r54 TIL: Palantir Technologies' Name and Logo are derived from the Palantir Seeing Stones from JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
X0X08 TIL chickens can count and even do some artihmetic