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TIL that if you win the American reality show 'Survivor' you have to give up any non-U.S. citizenship to be able to claim the prize money

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VMva0 TIL that in India an estimated 1.2 million people have died of snake bites since 2000.
9Yo5D TIL the Feynman Lectures on Physics, freely accessible online, is widely appreciated to be one of the most well written summaries of physics, and fully grapsing its brilliantly intuitive explanations allows one to enjoy a true understanding of the concepts
5gpp TIL in the early 1900s, the British equivalent of “That’s what she said” was “Said the actress to the bishop.”
QJZgM TIL in 2012 an Air Canada flight was grounded for four hours because a passenger’s cat got out of its carrier and hid in the cockpit.
leZG TIL that speaking Kurdish in public was illegal in Turkey in the 90s