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TIL Some chipmunks eat frogs and baby birds.

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69NA8 TIL Diophantus of Alexandria, a mathematician from the 3rd century, came up with many mathematical equations that took a long time to solve. The last one, Fermat's Last Theorem, was first stated in 1637 and was proved in 1995 by British mathematician Andrew Wiles.
rb7M TIL Southwest Airlines (The world’s 2nd largest airline by passengers carried) has never had an in-flight fatality.
P1PNe TIL that the British were the first to call the sport "soccer," as a shortening of "association football"
LkxoV TIL that the German word Elefantenrennen (literally: Elephant Racing) describes the event of one truck overtaking another on the autobahn and thus slowing traffic in the process.
Yp4gW TIL Nobel Prize nominees aren't released until 50 years after the award is won