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TIL that the Collyer brothers, Homer and Langley, filled their house with over 100 tons of random objects. Langley constructed a maze of tunnels, complete with deadly booby traps, to protect his brother, who never left his room. Langley was killed by his own traps, and Homer starved to death.

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lx4V TIL on Titan the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping “wings” attached to their arms.
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1680X TIL that at the start of WW1 famous Serbian General Radomir Putnik was in enemy territory. The Austro-Hungarian Emperor granted him safe passage to Serbia so that he could take charge of the Serbian Army. He was then able to successfully stop the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia.
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