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TIL: 15% of snails survive after being eaten by birds

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WkjA TIL J. D. Tippit was a police officer with the Dallas Police who, according to two government investigations, was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald after Tippit stopped Oswald following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Oswald’s initial arrest was for Tippit’s murder, not Kennedy’s
OGaNe TIL in the 1900s, the United States Radium Corporation employed women to paint watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint. The women were encouraged to put the paintbrushes in their mouths, leading to many developing fatal illnesses from ingesting radium.
69X9Z TIL a heat wave in Europe in 2003 killed over 70,000 people.
b9Oy4 TIL that the word "conundrum" was probably made up as a joke by a student at Oxford in the 16th century.
EGB0 TIL that Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria, who ruled from 1943 to 1946 as a child, and was overthrown after the WWII, was later elected Prime Minister of Bulgaria in 2001. He is the only monarch to become the head of government through democratic elections in European history.