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TIL There is a total of 184 birds in the 12 Days of Christmas.

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jd8v TIL the person most directly responsible for the scale of tragedy of the Titanic was a radio operator who told the closest ship to shut up after it radioed iceberg warnings. As a result the ship shut off its radio. It would easily have arrived in time to save everyone on board.
nK79 TIL Belgian Colonists cut the hands of children if villages did not meet Rubber Quotas in Congo
PY8Xw TIL of John Carpenter, the first person to win on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". He didn't use any Lifelines until the final question when he called his dad only to say that he didn't actually need any help, and just wanted to tell him that he was about to win a million dollars.
VJQm TIL a woman who looks like Casey Anthony was rammed off the road in Oklahoma the week after Anthony was acquitted.
6dN7 TIL Hitler wrote a second book after Mein Kampf in 1928. In it he describes why he would go to war in Europe and how he admired US eugenics programs. It was never published because he feared it would hurt already-low Mien Kampf sales.