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TIL that the Library of Congress archives all tweets and has collected over 170 billion tweets

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lokW7 TIL that there is actually an “Old Zealand” that New Zealand is named for: It was the Dutch Maritime Province of Zeeland, located near modern Belgium.
x8eg TIL that Russia signed a treaty banning bio-weapons, but ignored the treaty and continued developing them - even building ICBMs that could be loaded with weaponized smallpox, anthrax, typhus & rabies. After the fall of the USSR, they lost most of the bioweapons. Their locations remain unknown.
4MBJ TIL The Finnish military once repulsed a massive invasion by the Soviet Union, with a million men and thousands of tanks. The Finnish had just a few dozen tanks and only 114 airplanes, but destroyed more than 3,500 of the Russian tanks, and caused 323,000 total casualties to the Russian force.
5PlD TIL the word ‘paparazzi’ is derived from the Italian term for a very large mosquito.
l7MRK TIL that Claudia Christian (Babylon 5) was one of the first TV actors in the industry to be shown how computers were being used to generate visual FX in that new field of the 1990's.