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TIL that the Spanish basketball team that won the 2000 special olympics were faking their disability

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VBpo4 TIL that a moment was actually a medieval unit of time lasting about 90 seconds
ANbPd TIL the concept and name for the atom bomb was first conceived of by H. G. Wells in the 1914 novel The World Set Free. The story may have influenced the development of the real life weapons, as physicist Leo Szilard had read the novel before conceiving of the neutron chain reaction.
DPWe TIL that some Chinese men grow long fingernails to show that they don’t do manual labor
Darj TIL of a new suspect in the ‘Zodiac killer’ case. He was an editor for a counterculture newspaper in San Francisco, his voice has been ID’d by a 911 operator, and his full name appears in one of the ciphers; among several other pieces of circumstantial evidence.
9YOm6 TIL that I don't need to buy yeast to make bread, it will spontaneously grow in the kitchen.