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TIL that In 1969, El Salvador and Honduras fought a four-day conflict that cost thousands of lives and displaced thousands more in the aftermath of a Football game. The struggle is still remembered as the football war.

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NXyy6 TIL George Washington prevented a military coup over unpaid back wages by putting on a pair of glasses to read a letter from Congress, explaining he was "almost blind in the service of my country.” Moved to tears, his officers compromised.
l7XYr TIL about Brachycephalus, the world's smallest vertebrate, a frog so small it could sit on the head of a pencil eraser. Their auditory systems have also shrunk: at least two species can't hear their own mating calls.
5Kbr TIL in the popular video game ‘deus ex’ released in the year 2000, it is missing the twin towers due to graphical limitations. The in-game explanation for this was that they were destroyed by a terrorist attack.
dL1K TIL the Kiwi bird lays an egg that can weigh up to a quarter of its body mass. Proportionally, that’s like a chicken laying a one-pound egg or a human giving birth to a four year old.
R5vK7 TIL that due to Japanese marriage laws requiring married couples to share the same surname, it is projected that by 2531, all Japanese people could have the surname Sato.