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TIL 20 people have been killed by Gazas rockets launched at Israel… since 2007.

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gQD TIL WiFi was invented in Australia by CSIRO scientists and received $220 million dollars from US companies in compensation for using the technology.
9pj7 TIL Bear Grylls once rowed naked in a homemade bathtub for 22 miles down the Thames river to raise money for a buddy who lost his legs in a climbing accident.
xbQb TIL in 1941 Harry Truman said “if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious in any circumstances.”
8a5lb TIL there used to be a sport called Ferret-legging, where a ferret is trapped in a contestant’s pants, while not wearing underwear.
G6b1 TIL that a Pidgin language is a makeshift language created when two people who speak different languages want to communicate, whereas a Creole language is a language that was originally a Pidgin but is now spoken among a population as their native language.