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TIL: the term “sniper” comes from how hard it is to shoot the snipe bird

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ay4b TIL of the Hinterkaifeck murders in 1922. The farmer claimed he saw footsteps leading to the home, but not away. The family was later speculated to have been lured, one by one, into the barn where they were killed.
mx74p TIL of Littlewood’s Law of Miracles, which defines a miracle as a hugely-improbable, 1-in-a-million event. Assuming there are roughly eight hours per day where humans are alert, and we experience an “event” once per second, on average we should expect to experience a miracle about once per month.
v1V0L Today I learned Adolf Hitler was a 'super junkie' whose veins collapsed after thousands of injections according to Award-winning German writer Norman Ohler
p4d8 TIL when a new queen bee is available, the old queen is enclosed in a ball of bees until she overheats and dies. Also known as “cuddle death”.
JdRj TIL when Mark Wahlberg was 16, “he was charged with attempted murder for beating a Vietnamese refugee with a metal hook, leaving the victim blind. He was sentenced to two years in prison, but served just 45 days.”