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TIL FPSRussia’s house was once raided by 40 plus ATF and FBI agents.

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p8Brb TIL that at around 20 metres underwater gravity overtakes the buoyancy of your body and you start falling towards the centre of the earth.
xVOJ1 TIL how the marathon got its name. The event was instituted in commemoration of the fabled (meaning it's a myth) run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens, who reported the victory and died from exhaustion later on.
Nn1P TIL Human induced evolution created today’s watermelons, growing them 1680 times the size of the original and becoming 3,3 times sweeter
nWyZd TIL That there is a numeric question trick that can almost guarantee the response to be "carrot" after a few questions, regardless of culture.
OoYM6 TIL that using sign language, a caretaker communicated female chimp that her own baby died, to which the female chimp signed back "CRY" "touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human" (chimps can't shed tears)