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TIL in 1988 a tradie named Gordon O'Connor alongside his camel, Carla, defeated dysentery, kidney failure, the Australian outback and the SAS to win the world's longest animal endurance race

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NxeM TIL the German Parliament building has a glass dome above it that people can walk over. This is to remind the politicians that government should be transparent, and the people are always above them.
kyRE TIL in 1958, the Chinese captured a US Sidewinder missile just four days after it was introduced into combat when it got stuck in a Chinese jet during a dogfight with Taiwan aircraft. It was reverse-engineered into the Soviet AA-2 Atoll (K-13) missile and used against US planes in Vietnam.
7rXyO TIL Frederick the Great, Prussian Monarch from 1740 to 1786, known for his tactical genius on the battlefield, is considered by historians to be primarily homosexual in orientation. Following a demoralizing defeat, he wrote "Fortune has it in for me; she is a woman, and I am not that way inclined."
OoNr7 TIL that statistically conservatives tend to be happier than liberals, and this phenomenon spans across multiple countries and that this persist even after basic demographic factors have been controlled.
kBMm TIL in 1968 Japan, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car hadbeen riggedwith a bomb. The cop got under the car to defuse the device. Everybody ran when the car started to smoke. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved