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TIL that during the siege of Leningrad during World War II, 28 scientists chose to die of hunger while protecting the seed vault at the Vavilov Institute rather than eating the seeds

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W7ZwN TIL Winston Churchill left behind a debt of Rs. 13/- at the Bangalore Club, India which was written off by the committee on 01.06.1899 as an ‘irrecoverable sum’.
yPAM TIL James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott ( Scotty) on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger on his right hand (lost it on D-Day).
Q68E TIL that in an 8-hour day, the average worker is only productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes.
VMO5Q TIL that a French family had a roof leak in 2011. Upon inspection, the culprit turned out to be a 4.5 billion year old meteorite that had smashed through their roof tile. the family's name? Commette.
RGBQ TIL wolves brought to Yellowstone in 1995 changed the ecosystem so that even rivers changed