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TIL the Holodomor Genocide was a man made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine from 1932-1933.

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nWrVW TIL that while the quantity of stars on the US flag is determined by an act of congress, the size and position of the starts are determined by executive order and can be set unilaterally by the president.
QND1E TIL Trained Dogs Can Sniff Out Lung Cancer up to 97%
E187o TIL that the Department of Energy will warn future humans 10,000 years from now about the presence of buried nuclear waste in New Mexico with 32 25-foot granite pillars. The pillars will be engraved with pictograms and warnings in many languages, along with buried magnets and radar reflectors.
Me9pb TIL of Whittier, Alaska: A Community Under One Roof. It's a town that features a hotel and everyone in the community lives there and shares provisions. It's very hard to get to using a map and hard to enter considering that they physically block people out after a certain time.
QLaX TIL that when siamese twin Daisy Hilton died, her sister Violet remained alive and attached to her for several days before they were both found dead.