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8vLZ TIL that a lone Finnish soldier camped in a forest with a rifle and canned food, killing over 700 Soviets in under 100 days, surviving counter sniping efforts, artillery strikes, and an exploding bullet to the face.
9wxWQ TIL that there was a WWII land battle fought in Alaska between Japan (occupying force) and the United States.
GYMmJ TIL about Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, a modern cosmological model that says the universe iterates through infinite cycles with one universe's infinite expansion eventually giving rise to the next universe's Big Bang singularity.
E1kxd TIL In 2019, researchers painted cows black-and-white and found that fly bites reduced by 50%, because flies are less likely to sit on black-and-white striped surfaces. They have proposed this method as a possible prevention technique for the spread of disease through fly bites.
nW5Zr TIL of the Giant GRB Ring which is a ring of 9 gamma-ray bursts. It is 5.6 BILLION light years across.