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TIL that the game Oblivion has over a thousand characters, but only 13 voice actors.

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loK7r TIL as Lt. Dan Inouye was about to toss a grenade at a German machine gun nest, a Nazi shot his arm off with an RPG. Undaunted, Inouye pulled the live grenade from his severed hand, tossed it, put his gun in his left hand, then wiped out three machine gun nests and killed 25 Nazis on his own.
GAXGQ TIL that people of normal weight with the apple body shape are at higher risk of death than overweight or obese people with pear or hourglass shaped bodies
J1Qmk TIL that a Japanese pest control company built a grave in a 1,200-year-old graveyard in honor of all the termites it has killed.
1dg7 TIL that, in 1844, the Philippines moved from one side of the International Date Line to the other, which means that December 31, 1844 did not exist for them.
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