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TIL In Asian hotels room number 404 is usually missing because repetion of number 4 is considered bad luck

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5obr TIL that the annexation of Crimea was predicted years before by diplomats, as revealed by Wikileaks in 2006 and 2011.
J8EV TIL: From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade.
xVrgk Today I learned that Einstein won the Nobel Prize not for his famous equation E=mc^2 but for the discovery of the photoelectric effect.
rN6G0 TIL a fungus infects ants' central nervous systems. Once it has been in an insect for 9 days, it acquires full control. It forces the ant to climb trees, then convulse and fall into the moist soil. Once there, the fungus waits until solar noon to force the ant to bite a leaf and wait for death.
OGGlL TIL Dennis Rodman’s father was named Philander and reportedly has up to 47 children.