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TIL that Neil deGrasse Tyson was extremely athletic in high school, the captain of his wrestling team, and even invented a physics based wrestling move.

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ROK1 TIL while sexual sadist serial killer Peter Kürten was in a guillotine, he said to a priest, “Tell me… after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.”
XbMR TIL the Scottish national animal is the unicorn because it was deemed the enemy of the lion - the English national animal.
awJay TIL in 2017, elevated radioactivity levels were detected across Europe. While the increase was not dangerous for Europeans, it was estimated that people in a radius of several km from whatever happened were at severe risk. Nobody has assumed responsibility yet.
b6yn4 TIL that Actress Jan Broberg Felt, who portrayed Evan Rachel Wood's on-screen mother in the 2001 film "Little Secrets" was a kidnapping victim in her youth.
eAWg TIL an American charity pays drug addicts $300 to get sterilized