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TIL that the NASA's HQ building is owned by a Korean firm.
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TIL Elephants are compassionate toward the weak and altruistic toward other species
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Jedidiah Jenkins quit his job and decided to bike from Oregon to the southern tip of South America. His best friend, filmmaker Kenny Laubbacher, came along for the ride. This short film follows Jenkins as he shares what he's learned from his journey so far. “When you’re a kid, everything is astonishing. Everything is new, and so your brain is awake and turned on ... Once your brain establishes a routine, it stops ... the alertness goes away,” he says. By choosing adventure Jenkins is able to reactivate his brain and turn his “hundred years on this planet into a thousand.
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TIL Josef Mengele's bones are used to teach forensic medicine in Brazil's University of São Paulo (USP), in the brazillian state where he lived from 1960 to 1976.
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TIL A man tried to rob two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, because lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras.
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TIL that the actor who starred in 'The Great Train Robbery' (1903), retired from the cinema to work as a milkman, after appearing in more than 70 movies. 'The Great Train Robbery' was one of the earliest silent Westerns, and the actor famously shocked audiences by pulling the trigger at the camera.