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TIL that a spoonful of sugar stops hiccups.

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8eyX4 TIL there was a French SS division named ‘Charlemagne’ that fought alongside Nazi Germany, ending up among the last Axis defenders in Berlin in 1945.
E1kQx TIL that Marilyn Monroe once walked around New York City in broad daylight with nobody noticing her. She asked her companions “do you want to see her?” When they said “yes”, she changed her walk, speech, and posture, and strangers who previously ignored her realized who she was.
p8neO TIL Bats cannot take off from the ground. So if you find one that is on the ground gently pick it up with a shovel or something like that a let it crawl up on a tree.
eMM5 TIL: In 2005, a group of MIT students wrote a program, SCIgen, to generate fake academic papers, with 16 published by Springer and over 100 by IEEE. These papers were presented over 30 conferences between 2008 and 2013.
85A8 TIL Authorities uncovered Wachovia Bank who laundered $378.4bn for a Mexican Drug Cartel and was fined just $50m (2%of its profits) and no one went to Jail.