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TIL that Male Holocaust Survivors Have a Longer Life-Expectancy

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GA4XE TIL on November 11, 1918, the US Navy's 14-inch railway guns were last fired at 10:57:30 to ensure that the shells would impact just before the 11am armistice
a86LN TIL Jay-Z managed to obtain the permission to have a sample from Annie on "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" by writing the copyright holder a letter about his childhood trip to see the Broadway musical. However, the letter was a fib and Jay-Z had never seen the show.
R5rY8 TIL there's a Woodhenge 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge
eeAE TIL At the time of JFK’s death He was furious with the CIA about their funding the assassination of the South Vietnamese President and their plans to assassinate Fidel Castro, stating “I want to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”
5N19 TIL Charles Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton invented the dog whistle, meteorology, forensic fingerprinting and mathematical correlation. He also suggested that principles of animal breeding could be applied to humans, coined the word ‘eugenics’, and came up with the 'nature vs nurture’ idea.