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TIL that coyotes and badgers often hunt together

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ep5o6 TIL that MyPillow founder Mike Lindell had a crack cocaine addiction that led to his dealers staging an intervention on him.
e08nJ TIL about Foinavon, the horse that won the 1967 Grand National at 100/1 odds when the other horses became involved in a pile-up.
8ap18 TIL that in WW2 a polish doctor helped 8000 jews by creating a fake typhus epidemic. Not risking an epidemic, the Germans quarantined the area instead of sending them to concentration camps.
0BAR TIL when enlisting in the British army during WWII writer/actor Sir Peter Ustinov requested tank duty “because you can go into battle sitting down,” and as result his superiors concluded, “On no account must this man be put in charge of others.” so he was assigned to the infantry instead
d89EB TIL of the Continuum hypothesis : An hypothesis that has been proven unprovable under current mathematics.