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TIL only .5% of all housing in the UK has air conditioning

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XEj1D TIL the estimated death toll of the Massacre at Huế during the Vietnam War was between 2,800 and 6,000 civilians and prisoners of war, or 5–10% of the total population of Huế. Victims were found bound, tortured, and sometimes buried alive. Many victims were also clubbed to death
j6rmj TIL that on 9/11 an FBI informant was making a covert recording in WTC 3 and just happened to catch the audio and panic of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center (first plane impact at 1:10:40, second at 1:27:28)
RJJl TIL that in 1966, the U.S. Postal Service switched from using passenger trains to transport the majority of mail to using trucks and airplanes. The loss in revenue caused passenger rail to become unprofitable in the United States.
YM9x TIL China is building MASSIVE cities just to keep builders busy and generate growth. The result are ghost metropolis.
yQ5Qe TIL that Ozzy Osbourne didn’t know that the bat which head he bit off during a concert was real, he thought it was a rubber toy