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TIL that the Lykov family, who fled religious persecution by the Bolsheviks and lived in isolation in the Siberian wilderness for four decades, were discovered in 1978, completely unaware that World War II had even taken place

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71QX TIL of Internet Hunting where a remote rifle is setup with a webcam so one can hunt animals over the internet. The practice was effectively banned in the US by 2008.
loAdV TIL in 1958, Frank Herbert was talking with his friend from the Quileute tribe, whose lands were being destroyed due to excessive logging. The man said white people were "gonna turn this whole planet into a wasteland, just like North Africa." This inspired Herbert to write Dune.
NXL0M TIL that Petra is a female black swan who made headlines between 2006 and 2008 for falling in love with a pedalo shaped like a swan on the Aasee, a lake in Münster, Germany. Reported missing in January 2009, she was finally found on another lake, this time with a partner of her own species.
ADeB4 TIL: The mother of Dmitri Mendeleev (creator of the Periodic Table) traveled 1200 miles with her son to a university in Moscow to plead for her son's admission, only to get rejected. The mother then rode with Mendeleev another 400 miles to Saint Petersburg University and got him admission.
OLr7 TIL that George Tiller, a pro-choice doctor who was assassinated in 2009, was discussed on 28 episodes of Bill O'Reilly’s show and was nicknamed Tiller the Baby Killer by O'Reilly.