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TIL the East German border guard who escaped to West Germany during the contruction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 later hanged himself in his orchard

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Z8r1G TIL James Barry was born a woman but disguised herself as a man in order to join medical school. She performed one of the first known successful Caesarean sections. The new born was christened James Barry Munnik in his “her” honor. Her identity was discovered when she dead.
7rAgr TIL That the reason people drive on the left in Japan dates back to the Edo period. If the sheathes of two Samurai touched they would have to fight, usually to the death. In order to avoid this, Samurai would always walk on the left thus preventing any possibility of bumping sheathes.
NXVBe TIL that if Long Island were its own state, it would be the 13th biggest in the union with the highest population density.
OG69R TIL scientists have confirmed that the largest body of water in the known universe is 12 billion years old. It surrounds a quasar, and has the equivalent of 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean.
kOEGm TIL Hercules is a ROMAN hero and god - the equivalent of the GREEK divine hero, Heracles.