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TIL: That in 2021, a human being managed to hold their breath for 24 minutes and 37 seconds. Budimir Šobat attempted this feat to promote the city of Sisak, after it was hit by a strong earthquake in December 2020.

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KOk4a TIL in World War 2, Allied bombers frequently dropped leaflets warning Japanese citizens to evacuate when they were about to bomb a city, including Hiroshima.
Vwx0 TIL a 15 year old high school student discovered a new method of diagnosing cancer through Open Access resources. This method is 168 times faster, 26000 times cheaper, and 400 times more sensitive, with a success rate of 90%
gRGX TIL that school administrators let 16-year old Bill Gates write the computer code to schedule their students in classes. He modified the code so he was placed with “a disproportionate number of interesting girls”.
l0V TIL the guerrilla knitting movement is called - “KNITTA, PLEASE”
9n9B TIL that the 1964 war movie ‘The Battle of the Bulge’ was so historically inaccurate that President Dwight D. Eisenhower came out of retirement and held a press conference just to denounce the film.