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TIL If an atom were as big as the Solar System, a neutrino would as small as a golf ball.

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16BOO TIL that $100,000 were wired to 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the insistence of Pakistan's ISI Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed and he was meeting with Porter Goss and Bob Graham in Washington over breakfast discussing Osama Bin Laden when the attacks occured.
woM4P TIL about the Munich Agreement - lead by British PM Neville Chamberlain, France and the UK agreed to the German annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland in September 1938 in exchange for assurances against further German aggression. Hitler seized all of Czechoslovakia 6 months later.
Z8AMD TIL that the 1911 obituary of American millionaire Frank Work contained his rant against the arranged marriages of American heiresses to British noblemen for dowry. He thought it should be a 'hanging offence' - the waste of American money paying off private debts in exchange for aristocratic titles.
Br5ne TIL Alberta has no rats due to serious rat control policies, including a $5000 fine for having a rat. In 2004 someone released 38 rats in Calgary but by the time the rat control officers arrived the local residents had already formed an armed posse and hunted them down with brooms, 2x4s, and shovels
6EOmX TIL that actress Amanda Seyfried turned down the role of Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy because she thought ‘who wants to see a movie with a tree and a talking raccoon?’