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6EjRX TIL Christopher Columbus' efforts to obtain support for his voyages were hampered not by belief in a flat Earth but by valid worries that the East Indies were farther than he realized. In fact, Columbus grossly underestimated the Earth's circumference and caused he and his crew's near starvation.
VMeKB TIL of Momčilo Gavrić, the youngest Serbian soldier in history who joined at the age of 8 after his family was killed by Austro-Hungarian artillery fire in WW1
0nWA TIL that in World War One, on the Russian front, wounded soldiers were often eaten alive by wolves
9JQB TIL Jessica Alba owns a company that’s been valued at almost $1 billion
A6gn TIL around Halloween in 2012, Hurricane Sandy upended a giant oak tree in New Haven. In the roots of the tree were several skeletons from the 18th century and a forgotten 100-year-old time capsule.