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TIL France consumes around 16000 tons of snails a year!

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AXow TIL of Jack Churchill - He’s the only man with a confirmed Longbow kill in WWII. He carried a longbow, broadsword, and bagpipes. He played the pipes before battles, and survived the war.
16Ja4 TIL There are microchips (RFID tags) in NFL footballs and uniforms that are used to measure, among many other things, how fast a ball or player moves.
lo8Y7 TIL that the Mask of Warka, the oldest discovered accurate depiction of a human face (3100 BC), disappeared from the National Museum of Iraq after the 2003 US invasion. A US military mission to recover lost artifacts found the mask, undamaged, buried in a farmer's backyard.
Bgpbr TIL about the 1905 Battle of Tsushima between Japanese and Russian steel battleships. The Japanese sunk 21 Russian warships and captured another 5, including the flagship. Only three Russian ships made it back to a Russian port
mMNo TIL that Paul McCartney is the only artist to reach the top of the UK charts as a solo artist, duo, trio, quartet, quintet, and musical ensemble.