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TIL It was widely believed in Europe during the Middle Ages that some geese grew on trees

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R5Zbl TIL of the ir. D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station, the largest still operational steam-powered pumping station in the world.
4O9R TIL a Finnish man who joined the army after Russia invaded in WW2 ended up shooting and killing 505 Soviet soldiers with a sniper and earned himself the nickname White Death. He also got shot in the face and survived. He died at the age of 96 (2002).
jNDnv TIL of a rare complication from a rare disease. 43 year old man had pectus excavatum repair at age 7, but at his older age was still extremely exhausted. Doctors found that the early procedure in his life had destroyed his rib growth plates. His rib cage had stopped growing after 7 years old
VBW7p TIL the distributor for the movie Snowpiercer (2013) requested that the scene involving a fish be removed, but director Bong Joon-ho convinced them to keep it in by lying about his father being a fisherman and claiming the scene was dedicated to him. Bong's father was never a fisherman.
9wM66 TIL the fastest man made object is the Parker solar probe, which's already reached 394,736 mph, and is expected to reach 430,000 mph in 2024