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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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BrLwe TIL Snickers used to be called Marathon bars, and were renamed because of the Mars bar
VMeA0 TIL the most remote settlement on Earth is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, located on the island Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. The settlement nearest to it is on Saint Helena, 1350 miles away.
wRbo TIL Archaeologists have unearthed a pair of bongs made of pure gold that date back to 2,400 years ago.
wL0y7 TIL about the Reign of Terror, in which Robespierre, Danton and the Committee of Public Safety sentenced multiple people to the guillotine. In 11 months, 16,594 were killed, including allies to the regime. Both ended up guillotined themselves.
lol1V TIL that every single engineer in the Titanic died because they were working and fighting to keep the lights on so everyone else could get out.