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TIL Up to 6000 Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by American tanks fitted with ploughs during the Gulf War

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neZ8b TIL: Before the year 2000 problem, caused by storing only 2 digits for the year, there was the year 1970 problem because only one digit was stored for years from 1960 to 1969
Rb11 TIL that every Heinz Baked Bean is passed through a laser beam, to ensure it’s exactly the right colour.
kJJGE TIL Napoleon's penis is in a box in New Jersey.
E81X TIL When a viking raid was unable to breach the walls of an Italian city, their commander faked a deathbed conversion to Christianity so he could be buried at the local church. Once inside he promptly opened the gates for his army.
ZRv4 TIL In the same way that humans tend to be right-handed or left-handed, elephants can be right-tusked or left-tusked. Their dominant tusk is easy to identify, because it will be more worn down than the less dominant tusk, according to the World Wildlife Fund.