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TIL A statue of Queen Victoria was moved one inch on its plinth by a German bomb in 1940. It was otherwise unharmed.

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KPZB TIL in 1994 a russian pilot let his 15 yo son and 12 yo daughter try to fly an aircraft. The kids unknowingly disabled the autopilot: the plane crashed into a hillside in Siberia killing all 63 passengers and 12 crew members
5VAOB TIL about Percivall Pott and his discovery of the connection between scrotal cancer and chimney sweeps caused by exposure to soot
OGvK6 TIL when jumpstarting a car, you should connect the negative clamp to an unpainted part of the engine block rather than the negative battery post on the dead car. Otherwise if a spark occured it could ignite the hydrogen gas emitted by the lead acid battery.
781oO TIL about Levi Coffin. Born 1798 in North Carolina, he and his wife Catherine are credited with helping thousands of slaves escape to Canada. Some called him the "President of the Underground Railroad."
m4kv TIL that a freezer malfunction at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital in Belmot, Mass. has severely damaged one-third of the world’s largest collection of autism brain samples, potentially setting back research on the disorder by years