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TIL the British killed a higher rate of American prisoners during the American Revolution than the Japanese did during the Second World War

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0wReM TIL about “The Philidelphia Incident”. A Relatively Unknown Bill Burr Verbally Destroyed the City with a Savage Rant After Watching His Friends Get Booed Off Stage One After Another and Propelling Himself Out of Obscurity
G6N1 TIL - That a woman from Northern England has 4 functioning colour cones (most of us have only 3) and that due to this she can see 99 million more colours than the average person.
kJxvB TIL that the photographer responsible for the sleeve of the iconic Deep Purple's album "Machine Head", is also on it.
RXWl TIL When the Titanic sunk, the official investigation declared that it went down in one piece, despite the reports of survivors that they witnessed the breakup. Only in 1985 when the wreck was discovered were the survivors stories finally confirmed.
grZQD TIL Easy Cheese cans contain a propellant piston and plastic barrier that allows the cheese to come out as a thick string rather than a mist of fluorescent dairy. This also allows Easy Cheese to be dispensed upside down, sideways, and right side up, and the reason it doesn't need to be refrigerated