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TIL of Kim Ung-Yong, a South Korean man who was a guest student at a university at the age of 3, was invited by NASA to conduct research at 8, and earned a PhD in Civil Engineering at 15. He also has the highest IQ ever recorded in history.

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0LBj TIL in 1993 when a US Military food scientist was asked what should be used in the pictograph instructions to prop up the heater of their new “Meal, Ready-to-Eat” rations, he replied “I don’t know. Let’s make it a rock or something.” The rock illustration and the iconic phrase remain on MREs today.
p8Jl4 TIL Germany has its own semi-equivalent of American "sovereign citizens", who consider themselves citizens of a surviving Nazi German government-in-exile, and as such not subject to the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany.
5QdP TIL that the Norman Invasion of England 1066 caused many English noblemen to flee England for the Byzantine Empire (Modern day Turkey and Greece). There, the English diaspora founded the town, New York, 600 years before “New York” in America existed.
OaKg TIL there was a 20 meter shark that preyed regularly on whales and other large prey. They were such efficient killers that they ran out of food and had to resort to cannibalism, effectively eating themselves into extinction.
9wLYX TIL The flower that takes the longest to bloom is a rare species of giant bromeliad, Puya raimondii, native to the mountains of Bolivia. On average it takes between 80-150 years to bloom, though one specimen planted by UC Berkeley only took 28 years to bloom.