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TIL that all domestic hamsters are descendants of a single brother-sister pair that was bred in 1930.

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Bv1e TIL that actor Andre Royo who played drug addict Bubbles on The Wire was given a small package of heroin by a Baltimore resident with the man saying “Man, you need a fix more than I do.”. Royo has called this his “street Oscar”.
gJ8A TIL that Tsutomo Yamaguchi (the man who survived both atom bombs) traveled 180 miles home to return to work despite his intense injuries from the first bomb. When he arrived at work his boss didn’t believe that one bomb destroyed all of Hiroshima. Then the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
eM6b TIL In Asian hotels room number 404 is usually missing because repetion of number 4 is considered bad luck
OG5yX TIL that Africa is being torn apart by the East African Rift. You can already see its effect by many lakes forming a line between the red sea and Lake Malawi
4ka6g TIL that during the Cephalonia massacre in WWII, after executing most of the Italian officers that had surrendered to them, the Germans forced 20 Italian sailors to take the bodies out to sea in rafts. They then blew up the rafts with the sailors still on them.