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TIL that non-violent attempts to escape Mexican prisons are not punished as ‘it’s human nature to want freedom’

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9YowQ TIL that an optical illusion caused due to super light refraction may have prevented the Titanic from spotting the iceberg in time and also the closest freighter SS Californian from identifying the ocean liner when it was sinking
OGodX TIL that the creators of Hunter X Hunter and Sailor Moon are married
6EX5Z TIL After North Korea banned Choco pies, South Korea airlifted 10,000 of them across the DMZ with balloons
1aXeO TIL about Aphrodite Areia, the Warlike and Armoured version of Aphrodite worshipped by the Spartans.
8evGa TIL that Alfred E. Neuman was an unnamed stock character in advertisements and political art dating as far back as 1894 before he was named and adopted as the mascot for Mad Magazine in 1956.