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N7en1 TIL that Gavrilo Princip, the man that assassinated Franz Ferdinand and started WW1, was arrested and in prison he contracted Skeletal Tubercolisis which started eating his bones so badly that his arm was amputated and weighted 40 kilograms (88 pounds).
1aDRX TIL the 1904 Olympic marathon was the sketchiest Olympic event in history
woVa1 TIL Showing male pandas "panda pornography" is credited with recent population boom among pandas in captivity in China.
gMkOW TIL about the Sorites Paradox, a paradox that arises from vague predicates. If you remove a grain of sand from a heap, it is still a heap of sand. When the process is repeated enough times: is a single remaining grain still a heap? If not, when did it change from a heap to a non-heap?
NaRE TIL Jack Nicholson found out his sister was actually his mother when he was 37