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TIL: The analogy about frogs not jumping out of water that is slowly raised to boiling stems from a 19th-century experiment demonstrating just that ... but the frog previously had its brain removed.

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EAOW TIL Loki once talked the Gods into making a bad bet with a Giant which would have lost them the sun, the moon, and the goddess Freyja. Ordered to put it right, he took the form of a mare, seduced the Giant’s stallion, sabotaging the bet. Loki later gave birth to a gray foal with eight legs.
1dw8 TIL in 2012 a statue of Jesus started dripping water. People declared it holy and started drinking it. A man proved it was bad plumbing and was called a blasphemer. He had to flee to Finland.
OGJRR TIL that mankind has built a space craft that will come within 3.83 million miles of the Sun in December of 2024.
0wZJN TIL during the D-Day scene in Saving Private Ryan, the two surrendering "Germans," killed by American soldiers, were saying in Czech: "Please don't shoot me! I'm not German, I'm Czech, I didn't kill anyone!" The American soldiers jokingly translate it as "Look, I washed for supper!"
PYB8Z TIL that the chevy suburban started back in the 30s as a station wagon being fitted to commercial frames called the Suburban Caryall, it was adopted for use during WWII by the US Armed Forces. This makes the Chevy Suburban the longest running nameplate with 85+years of consistent manufacturing.