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TIL There are “oxygen candles” that are used aboard the international space station and when ignited provide enough oxygen for one person for 24 hours

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1bGW TIL that elephants also grieve like us.They shed tears and even try to ‘bury’ their dead.
46nw TIL that helicopter escapes from prison are not only real but highly successful
QRdd TIL that James Watson, one of the scientists who discovered the helical structure of DNA, believes that stupidity is a disease and stupid people should be “cured”, people from Africa are inherently less intelligent, and that he would never hire a fat person.
x6v5g TIL that the borders of 10 different municipalities converge at the summit of Mount Etna in Sicily
60lQ TIL when a high school in Pennsylvania issued MacBooks to its students, they remotely activated the webcams to take automatic photos of the students every 15 minutes. They took over 56,000 webcam shots before getting busted. They were sued for $610,000.