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TIL During WW2, USSR lost more soldiers during the Battle of Stalingrad than USA during the complete war

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78Zdx TIL the Canfranc Railway Station linking France with Spain was the second largest station in Europe at 240 meters in length when completed in 1928. It was a hub for trafficking of spies, refugees (including artists Ernst and Chagal), and more than 100 tons of gold during WW2.
MedWV TIL that a lasagna can act like a battery, when stored in certain conditions. In a "Lasagna Cell", a steel pan acts as the cathode and an aluminum foil covering as the anode. The foil can get corroded away and form holes where it touches the top of the lasagna.
G5J7 TIL Pope Formosus’ body was exhumed and put on trial, where a deacon was appointed to answer for Formosus. The corpse was found guilty, stripped of its sacred vestments, deprived of three fingers, clad in the garb of a layman, and quickly buried; it was then re-exhumed and thrown in the Tiber.
X0XP6 TIL Self-Defense from a Tutorial Created in 1933
JYkPB TIL a woman in a wheelchair won a treadmill on the Price is Right. When someone tweeted "I laughed but then felt bad", she replied "Don't feel bad. I feel great. I've been popping wheelies all day."