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TIL: Nicotine is more addictive than Heroin.

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Zv8R TIL that in response to being booed by Brooklyn Dodger fans during a ballgame, future manager extraordinaire Casey Stengel came to the plate with a sparrow tucked beneath his cap. Turning to the crowd he tipped his cap and out flew the sparrow, effectively giving the crowd “the bird”.
l7Ov1 TIL a deep-space supernova or sun-flare expelling cosmic rays and charged particles may have caused a 2003 Belgium miscounted election by bit flipping an election machine and causing a candidate to receive an extra 4096 votes
0wjjR TIL that guitarist Eddie Van Halen was half Indonesian, and that his family immigrated to the United States because of how badly his mixed-race parents were treated in the Netherlands.
rddo TIL that during WWII storks migrating from Holland to South Africa were found with messages taped to their legs that read, “Help us! The Nazis are killing us all!”
Y7eWP TIL about the Diomede Islands - Big Diomede is in Russian territory, Little Diomede is in the U.S. They're just 2 miles apart, but due to the International Date Line, Big Diomede is 21 hours ahead of Little Diomede.