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TIL that Elmo, Santa Claus, and Saddam Hussein all have keys to the city of Detroit

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nWXMo TIL the CIA accidentally left explosives in the engine of a school bus. The bus was in operation for two days, carrying kids, before the explosives were discovered by mechanics
ONE7 TIL the number of devices connected to the internet now exceeds the number of people in the world
WmrN Today I learned that the price of admission for a zoo in 18th century England was a dog or a cat – they were fed to the lions.
GAxo7 TIL that the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic holds the bones of 40,000–70,000 people, and they’ve been turned into art. We’re talking bone chandeliers (with every type of human bone), garlands of skulls, and bell-shaped bone mounds in every corner.
YRyW TIL German General and World War I hero Paul Von Lettow Vorbeck told Hitler to go fuck himself when he offered him an ambassadorship.