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TIL that Turkey has one of world’s most through national building codes against earthquakes. But they just did not enforce them.

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Ooyb1 TIL of Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, who was the only woman to have served in front-line reconnaissance in the Soviet marines during WWII. She carried hundreds of men to safety. In 1944, she helped assault a Ukrainian city, singlehandedly attacking a German position and taking 14 prisoners.
RQ8w TIL that JFK would not let Sammy Davis play in the White house in 1961 after his interracial marriage Illegal in 31 states at the time. His marriage not only made headlines, it inspired death threats and demonstrations and forced Davis to hire 24-hour armed guards.
dbPB TIL Tony Hawk had his own brand of toilet paper because his agency thought they could sell anything with his name on it, “even toilet paper”
neyR7 TIL that lemmings don't commit mass suicide. It is a myth widely spread by Disney's 1958 Academy Award-winning documentary White Wilderness, in which producers threw lemmings off a cliff to their deaths to fake the footage.
dwnQ TIL the world’s fastest street legal car can go from 0-60 in 1.8 seconds. That car? An electrical 1972 Datsun (repurposed)