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TIL the Great Wall of China is not actually visible from space, its just a myth.

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W7Rko TIL the original script for Predator (1987) involved one soldier fighting the Predator. This bothered Arnold Schwarzenegger, so the story was redone to include a team of commandos.
JJW1 TIL if you type www.loser.com in the web address bar, it will redirect you to Kanye West’s Wikipedia page.
5V8pk TIL about Dr. Mike Bingham, a conservationist who was fired for reporting an 80% penguin decline. He was harassed by the government, sued them for human rights abuses, and won in the Supreme Court.
kxjB TIL Roald Dahl was a decorated WWII pilot, a post-war MI6 agent in the US, co-inventor of an implantable valve to relieve pressure in sufferers of hydrocephalus, and married a movie star.
0dG9j TIL that Hitler only became a German citizen in 1932, only a year before he took power