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TIL about Garden-Path Sentences such as "The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families." which are grammatically correct but almost always read initially as nonsensical

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AgE4 TIL that the word “Sanction” is an antonym of itself.
x6KE7 TIL in WW2, when Germans captured a British bomber tail gunner who claimed that he had jumped out of his plane at 5500m without a parachute, they investigated and confirmed his claim and gave him a certificate to confirm his story.
e0GkE TIL that crabs have teeth in their stomachs and they use them to 'growl' at predators
VMK8D TIL On April 30th 2003, the world rocket sled speed record was broken at Holloman High Speed Test Track, New Mexico. The sled reached Mach 9, 9465 feet per second (6453 mph) producing 228,000lbs thrust over 1.4 seconds. The track speed limit is currently set at Mach 10.
rN6r1 TIL that in 2012 between 6-70 teenagers in Iraq were killed because they dressed in an ‘emo’ style