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TIL that the archived materials from Helen Keller’s life were destroyed by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

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N1gJ TIL If our sun had a supernova it would be 9 times brighter to us than if an atomic bomb exploded against our eye
dXjK TIL If you hold up a grain of sand, the patch of sky it covers contains 10,000 galaxies
d1dZ TIL Canal France International accidentally broadcasted 30 minutes of porn to Saudi Arabia… instead of a children’s programme.
1OrD TIL that Vasily Zaytsev, a Soviet sniper with over 242 confirmed kills and 500 rumoured kills, became so good at shooting due to his peasant childhood; his family was too poor to afford many bullets, and hence he was forced to learn to take one shot per animal.
9a7p TIL in 2013 Europe was hit by a horse meat scandal, in which 300 tons of horse meat was found throughout the EU food supply labeled as beef. The source was traced to a Romanian slaughterhouse, who sold it as horse meat to a chain of Cyprus, Dutch, and Irish resellers who mislabeled it.