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TIL contrary to George C. Scott’s gravel-voiced portrayal, General Patton actually had a voice that was “high-pitched, nasal, irritating, and at times, it bordered on effeminate”.

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W8rY TIL Gardiners Island in New York is one of the United States’ largest private islands, has been owned by the Gardiner family for almost 400 years, and was granted to them by the King of England. It also has New York State’s oldest building on it, built in 1639.
PYbVL TIL in 2016 researchers at University of Southampton invented glass chips etched with nanostructures that can be used to store up to 360 terabytes of data for billions of years
1LJV TIL that there is one-way bullet resistant glass.
KYJZ6 TIL One of the most important soccer clubs in Spain, Athletic Club, only has players trained and born in the Basque Country region, and does not sign players from anywhere else.
LgbQ TIL the Indus Valley Civilizaton’s major cities had flushing toilets in almost every home by 2600 BC