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TIL a Venezuelan navy ship sank after trying to ram a cruise ship

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8aKGa TIL In 1975, Jack Hetherington wrote an influential physics paper and added his cat as the co-author after realizing he used the plurals "we" and "our" in his paper.
wLLW6 TIL that a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-II successfully took four pictures of the death camp in action that were smuggled out of the camp by the Polish resistance in a toothpaste tube #1-2 cremation of corpses in a fire pit from the chamber #3 naked women before they enter the chamber #4 miss-aimed
LkrEP TIL that cars in movies don’t have headrests so you can see the actors better ????
WkKOL TIL that neanderthals, which were traditionally thought of as extremely primitive humans, are now believed to have been extremely intelligent, even comparable to the intelligence of modern humans. They used tools, had social structures, thrived in hostile environments, and lived long lives.
9nG7 TIL: Forest fires can create lightning