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TIL: The first death in WWII was Franciszek Honiok, a German of Polish descent. The Gestapo murdered him and left his body at a radio station that the Gestapo, dressed in Polish uniforms, attacked. The body helped "prove" Polish aggression to justify the Nazi's invasion of Poland the next day.

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VMX10 TIL that until 1991 there was a 3 acre aquarium in Montreal. The aquarium closed down after all of the dolphin trainers went on strike, leaving the dolphins unfed for 38 days and causing most of them to die
OGA0a TIL, when the asteroid that caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction Event hit earth, the force was so high, that some rocks/material was ejected into space, leaving our atmosphere, while some burned upon re-entry.
OojO6 TIL: Michael Collins had a bone spur on his spine that was removed. Yet he still managed to be part of the Apollo 11 mission that put the first humans on the moon.
l7jM7 TIL the Republic of Dagestan is one of the most linguistically diverse for its size administrative divisions on earth. With territory similar in size to Costa Rica, it has 14 oficial languages and between 30 and 50 native languages in total. Some are spoken in a single village.
xVNJ7 TIL Quebec engineering students invented a giant vacuum to clean up microplastics from beaches. At about 3 gallons/minute, it sucks sand into a tank which then separates particles by weight, so plastic can be filtered out.