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TIL the largest war in history wasn’t between humans but between billions of ants carried out on multiple continents

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ldGr TIL By the end of the WW2 The Indian Army had become the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945.
e0YML TIL that Christmas celebrations were illegal in New England in parts of the 17th century, because the Puritans found no scriptural justification for celebrating it and associated the celebration with paganism and heavy drinking
OoYOY TIL about white torture. A person is isolated in a all white room and given only white food to strip them of their identity.
ZpZg4 TIL UC Berkeley scientists discovered 16 elements of the periodic table - more than any other university in the world.
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