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TIL of Patricia Demauro who in May 23rd 2009 rolled a pair of dice 154 times continuously at a craps table, without throwing a seven. Odds of that is 1 in 1.56 trillion.

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p8aEA TIL in 1951, 650 British soldiers were being overwhelmed by 10,000 Chinese. When an American general asked for a status update, a brigadier responded "things are a bit sticky down there." No help was sent and almost all of the troops were killed because the general did not get the understatement.
N7lg6 TIL people vandalize and protest the statue of Winston Churchill, one of the great humans of history - a true giant of our race, a man who may have literally saved the world from Nazi rule
b9Eo4 TIL that the Irish Famine of 1740-41, or 'the Year of Slaughter', killed between 13-20% of the population, proportionally more than the later Great Famine.
d86xQ TIL that Polish coffin company, Lindner, has had a "sexy" coffin calendar since 2010 [NSFW]
5VAAr Today I learned there is another dwarf planet further than Pluto called Gongong.