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TIL Martha Stewart used to be a model and even did a campaign for Chanel.

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wLWo8 TIL during 9/11 nearly 500,000 people were transported out to safety by boat in 9 hours, compared to Dunkirk which saved 300,000 troops in three days
R5bb6 TIL mammoths were still alive as recently as 3730 - 4490 years ago
KOLDJ TIL Scottish scientists were awarded £250,000 in funding for a 3 year program to breed sheep who fart less. First they will work out how much methane the sheep produce; then they'll attempt to create more of the animals who fart the least.
GANwj TIL of Richard Lancelyn Green. The world's leading expert on Sherlock Holms who was found dead in mysterious circumstances after trying to stop Arthur Connan Doyle's letters being exported from the UK
awa1b TIL about the deadly Poison Fire Coral fungus (native to Japan, Korea, and Australia) that can cause the brain to shrink if consumed.