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TIL only 6,800 Americans were killed in action over the course of the entire 8 years of the Revolutionary War

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QNGkL TIL Beatle historians consider their infamous "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" to be the song that broke them up, as it showed that a Lennon-McCartney song was always picked to be recorded over a George Harrison song, no matter the quality of the Harrison song
Djvp TIL that Texas no longer offers last meals to Death Row inmates prior to their executions.
5Orn TIL Brian Eno (U2, David Bowie, Coldplay) composed the start up sound for Windows 95
OoGB4 TIL that in 2013 Washington state gave Boeing an $8.7b tax break to "maintain and grow its workforce within the state" - the largest tax break in history. Boeing then cut its workforce in the state by 15%
14RD TIL that 2015, 96 million black polyethylene balls were dropped into a reservoir in Sylmar, California, to stop evaporation of 300 million gallons of water per year