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TIL that if you’re behind a firewall like in Iran or China and can’t download Tor, you can send an email to gettor@gettor.torproject.org with the subject “help” and get a download via email with step by step instructions.

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p5D8 TIL That adult elephants will actively try to kill lion cubs in a kind of retaliation since adult lions are the only animal to prey on elephant calves.
b6kEj TIL even people with pale skin can get vitiligo.
X0k6r TIL In the 1970s, North Korea ordered 1,000 Volvo cars from Sweden. The cars were shipped and delivered, but North Korea simply ignored the invoice and refused to pay. Till this day the bill for $70 Million remains unpaid making it the largest car theft in history
YpdMA TIL that the longest ice hockey game in history was game 5 of one of the quarter-finals of the 2016-17 Norwegian league playoffs. The game went into octuple overtime for a total of 157:14 of overtime, and 217:14 of hockey played. The game started at 18:00 and ended at 2:32 the next morning
awwPL TIL Windows were originally ventilation holes for stale air and smoke called Vindr Auga which means ‘the wind’s eye’ in Old Norse.