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Today I learned there there is no evidence that Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla hated each other.

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n8n7 TIL not all Kamikaze were volunteers, “It’s all a lie that they left filled with braveness and joy, crying, ‘Long live the emperor!’ They were sheep at a slaughterhouse. Everybody was looking down and tottering. Some were unable to stand up and were carried and pushed into the plane by soldiers.”
X0LNk TIL South Koreans don't have to pay rent or buy their apartments
aagN TIL: The red kangaroo breeds all year round. The females have the unusual ability to delay birth of their baby until their previous Joey has left the pouch. This is called embryonic diapause.
5V1PP TIL That the New York City Metropolitan Area is larger than the country of Equatorial Guinea. The New York Metropolitan Area has a surface area of approximately 13,318 square miles, and Equatorial Guinea has a surface area of 10,831 square miles.
woDJW TIL that in 1978, a man mailed himself from Australia to the UK in a wooden crate as cargo, and survived the 63-hour journey.