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TIL that the second largest nuclear spill in world history happened in the U.S. in Navajo Nation

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jNgoR TIL that inoculation against smallpox was already practised in Africa, China and Turkey long before it reached Western Europe and North America
YpOKd TIL that we are getting over an hour less sleep than people did in the 1940s. Back then, the average was slightly more than 8 hours of sleep a night, while today we are down to around 6 hours, 45 minutes of sleep nightly.
D11Ye TIL there is no butter (or dairy) in apple butter
xV4W0 TIL: Sun Quan, Emperor of Wu in ancient China, ordered his son Sun Ba to kill himself and exiled Sun He as he was fed up with their rivalry over the throne. He then made his youngest crown prince.
WkdYY TIL a few months before playing a famed role in the Union Army's defense at the Battle of Gettysburg, the 20th Maine experienced a vicious outbreak of smallpox. The entire regiment was quarantined in an effort to protect the rest of the Army of the Potomac.