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TIL Joseph Stalin and Frank Lloyd Wright shared a son-in-law.

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oRDKA TIL that Neptune was discovered in 1846 not by accident, but because astronomers noticed Uranus was wobbling off course. Mathematicians used Newton’s laws to predict where a hidden planet should be and when they pointed a telescope there, Neptune was right where the math said it would be.
kJ07B TIL there are only 14 countries with an obesity rate higher than U.S.A, and all of them are tiny island nations in the Pacific or Caribbean (with the exception of Kuwait).
yQkVl TIL that frogs use their eyeballs to swallow. Frogs eat their prey whole and their eyeballs actually sink down into their mouth and push the food down into their throat.
QNV1d TIL about Operation Nimrod, where the British SAS conducted a daring raid on the Iranian Embassy in London to rescue hostages. Six armed revolutionaries stormed the embassy and took 26 people hostage, resulting in a 6 day siege. 19 hostages were rescued and the raid was broadcasted live.
VMXE4 TIL of Charles Henry Turner. He was an African American scientist who earned his PhD in 1907. He discovered that insects could distinguish pitch, that cockroaches can learn by trial and error and that honeybees can see color.