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TIL that Kim Peek, the inspiration for Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rain Man, could recall the contents of over 12,000 books. His IQ was 87.

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ep68D TIL that at one of the WWII death camps the prisoners rose up & killed most of the guards. After about 300 escaped, fear of discovery led officials try to hide their war crimes by ordering that the camp be closed & sold to a forestry service, who planted trees there.
Wk4Z9 TIL that male chicks are ground up alive on their first day of birth in the egg industry
AkQg TIL there is an exoplanet roughly two times the size of earth, 55 Cancri E, that has a crust made of diamond 2500 miles thick
nWe97 TIL that at 14, Robert McGee was tomahawked, shot with a pistol and multiple arrows, and scalped while he was still conscious. He survived.
ogeK TIL A Canadian creationist who believes the world is only around 6,000 yrs old, accidentally discovered a 60-million-year-old fish fossil while excavating a basement in Calgary.