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TIL that 99% of Jewish children in Poland died in the Holocaust. Only 5,000 were left out of a pre-war population of 1 million.

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Q69X TIL on 26 August 2016 in Hardangervidda, Kingdom of Norway, a “herd of wild reindeer was struck by lightning.” More than 300 (three hundred) reindeer died “in what wildlife officials say was a highly unusual massacre by nature.”
e0pn6 TIL in 1982, a man named Larry Walters attached 45 helium-filled balloons to a lawn chair and took flight to a height of 16,000 feet. He did so because he was denied entry in the US Air Force due to poor eyesight.
kxgB TIL that several Hells Angels members plotted to murder Mick Jagger after he called them out for fatally stabbing a black man at their free concert in Altamont, California in 1969. They took a boat to his location on Long Island, but had to swim for their lives when a major storm brewed up.
mw5o TIL London is riddled with dozens of ‘Plague Pits’ of the victims of the Bubonic Plague. Some pits are so thick with bodies it was impossible to drill through the mass of skeletal remains during construction of the Tube
9dnX TIL: J.J. Abrams is producing a Half-Life movie AND a Portal movie.