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TIL, in Australia, kangaroos kill more people than sharks.

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P1dpw TIL the RAF air raid on Hamburg on the night of 27 July 1943 unleashed a firestorm, with temperatures reaching 800°C and winds of up to 240 km/h, incinerating 21 km² of the city and killing over 18,000 people. A large number of those killed were seeking safety in air raid shelters and cellars.
Wkev8 TIL Scientists managed to edit human embryos, freeing them from a piece of faulty DNA which caused a deadly heart disease that ran in families. The embryos were allowed to develop for 5 days before they stopped the experiment.
j69Wa TIL about Gilles de Rais, a leader in the French army during the Hundred Years' War, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc was put on trial and eventually found guilty of the abduction, torture and murder of more than 140 children in attempt to summon a demon named Barron.
rNG4e TIL the original Super Mario 2 was deemed too difficult & included things like poisonous mushrooms & warps backwards,. This became "The Lost Levels' while the American market received a ported version of a game called Doki Doki Panic rebranded to "Super Mario 2"
L4EP TIL that Mitochondria within cells originated from parasitic bacteria