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TIL in 2013, reporters dropped 192 wallets across 16 major cities to test honesty. Helsinki, Finland topped the list with 11/12 wallets returned, while Lisbon, Portugal ranked lowest: only 1 out of 12 wallets was returned

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R7b1a TIL about Nelson Bryant who lost his trench knife in 1944 during World War II as he escaped from nearby enemy soldiers in Holland. 73 years after the day he parachuted into Groesbeek, Holland, Mr. Bryant will receive his lost knife.
0dNnR TIL A Roman soldier mooned at crowds in Jerusalem, causing a stampede which left 10k people dead
KOlyJ TIL that a female zebra shark held in captivity in Australia gave birth asexually in 2017. It is only the third documented case of a vertebrate of any species switching its reproductive strategy from sexual to asexual. Sperm storage was ruled out when genetic testing was done on the offspring.
4k8Bb TIL of Meigs Field, which was destroyed one night in a clandestine mission by the chicago mayor.
XE5eD TIL The World's Longest Continuously Running Experiment began in 1927 at the University of Queensland Brisbane testing the viscosity of pitch - 9 drops have formed since it began. The last one in April 2014.