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TIL skyscrapers kill over 1 billion birds per year

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wLglo TIL that the town of Anadyr 1 was a secret Soviet nuclear base
oewW TIL That a Korean man during WWII was conscripted to fight for the Japanese, was caught by the Russians, forced to fight for the Russians, captured and forced to fight for the Germans, and finally captured by American troops at D-Day. He eventually moved and passed away in Illinois.
l7ZEV TIL Beef was rarely eaten in ancient China, as cows & bulls were used mostly for transportation. Only nobility could eat beef- but only if the animal died naturally or from old age.
XJxj TIL in 1940 the Polish Underground Army purposefully had a soldier detained and sent to Auschwitz in order to collect intelligence.
8elGb TIL that the United States Air Force owns 4 Doomsday planes specifically designed for nuclear war, and one of them has a callsign named 'ORDER66'