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TIL 93% of Americans eat pizza at least once a month

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9wQxB TIL about the Chinese "Fuxing high-speed train" which is among the world's fastest at 350 km/h (217 mph)
JY4nm TIL That during 2020 Nova Scotia Attack (Canada's worst murder spree), the RCMP tried to block the 911 recordings from being released to the public, because it proved they knew more the killers movements than they let on. As a resident of NS, I believe these need to be shared.
78Ggx TIL that 152 black cats auditioned to be in a film adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Black Cat"
RKY7 TIL a German sailor named “Oscar” survived the sinking of the Bismark, switched sides to the allies and survived the Ark Royal and Cossack, floating on a board unharmed but angry. He was a cat.
0wAyL TIL After WWII ended in Europe, German soldiers in US custody were not considered POW’s. No longer protected by the Geneva Convention they were not entitled to similar shelter or the same quantities of food as U.S. troops. Consequently, tens of thousands of prisoners died from hunger and disease