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TIL The USA dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. Thats about 3 bombs every hour for 24 hours a day…

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w07o TIL of the Green children of Woolpit; a brother and sister with green skin who appeared by an English village and spoke in an unknown language.
Z8GkQ TIL For more than 50 years last century, Chicago Public High Schools required boys to swim naked.
OYo4 TIL the Vatican bank frequently launders Mafia gun and heroin money…
X0eJ6 TIL Prehistoric monkeys migrated from Africa to South America by traversing the Atlantic Ocean on natural rafts
4XeB5 TIL about Mariya Oktyabrskaya. When her husband was killed in 1941, she paid for a tank, named it "Fighting Girlfriend," and distinguished herself as a fearless and deadly tank driver, often repairing her tank under heavy fire. After she died in March 1944, she was named a Hero of the Soviet Union.