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TIL that a few years a couple in Bosnia discovered that they were cheating on each other, with each other. They had been chatting with one another on an online chat-room, without realizing that they were in fact speaking to their spouse.

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JYo5V TIL about Bertlmann's socks — a physicist so famed for wearing odd socks every day, that they have been turned into a metaphor about how quantum mechanics does (not) work.
p8G8N TIL of Johann Elser, a German carpenter who almost killed Adolf Hitler and most of the top Nazi leaders shortly before the outbreak of WWII. He worked alone to construct and plant a bomb that went off just 13 minutes too late. He was a Christian motivated by a sense that millions would soon die.
grPE7 TIL in 1956, the U.S. Air Force attempted but were unable to shoot down a runaway drone in southern California. All their rockets fell, causing large brushfires and damaging homes and vehicles in the city of Palmdale. 1,000 acres (400 ha) were burned. It became known as the "Battle of Palmdale".
9wAZr TIL that on August 14, 2014, Berkshire Hathaway's A Class shares, the highest priced shares on the NYSE, hit $200,000 a share for the first time.
0LyA TIL Francis Ford Coppola was so frustrated that studios wouldn’t let him make ‘Apocalypse Now’ that he threw his 5 Oscars out the window, mangling them. His mother got them replaced by the Academy by blaming the housemaid.