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TIL in 2010, an octopus from Germany named Paul would predict how every game in the FIFA World Cup would go. He ended up being 100% correct with every choice he made.

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oRO8L TIL there was an effort during WWII to train pigeons to guide missiles by strapping them in a harness and using their pecks to navigate. The pigeons were largely successful during closed loop tests with fast response time and high accuracy, but the project never came to fruition due to budget cuts.
y4ra TIL a Brazillian billionaire announced, inspired by the Egyptian Pharaohs, that he will bury his $450,000 car with him. After receiving anger reactions from the media he posted: “It’s absurd to bury something much more valuable than a Bentley: your organs. I am an organ donor. And you?”
YpY1G TIL In the opening scene of the Disney movie 'The Little Mermaid', when King Triton arrives at the arena, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck and Kermit the Frog can be briefly seen in the crowd of sea-people.
x6awk TIL that after the 1955 Le Mans disaster, which resulted in the deaths of ~84 people, several countries like France, Switzerland, Spain banned motorsports. Although the other countries lifted the ban within the next year, Switzerland lifted the ban only in May 2022, 67 years later
L44Q TIL that Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden’s height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden’s corpse.