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TIL the 2006 movie ‘Children of Men’ featured content depicting the London 2012 Olympic games

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xVJv0 TIL that if you add 250ml of ethanol to 250ml of water, you get less than 500ml of liquid. This is due to strong hydrogen bonding that draws the different molecules close together, and because ethanol interferes with any open structures in the water, causing the molecules to pack closer together.
M6AK TIL the Kargil war in 1999 between India and Pakistan is the only war ever between two countries where both have weapons of mass destruction.
xVG75 TIL modern day numerals and Algebra were introduced by Fibonacci from a mathematical treatise in currently 'lost' library in Baghdad that dates back to 13th century.
Oo8X1 TIL Douglas Ginsburg withdrew his nomination to the US Supreme Court after it was discovered he smoked pot with his Harvard Law School students. Anthony Kennedy was the replacement nominee.
7ZoX TIL that during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII, a local railway station changed hands from Soviet to German control 14 times in six hours.