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TIL that Malaria killed ~10k troops in the US Civil War

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grxk7 TIL an Australian soldier named Herbert James "Ringer" Edwards survived being crucified for 63 hours by Japanese soldiers during World War 2.
OGE0a TIL Basketball star Jayson Tatum and hockey star Matthew Tkachuk have been close friends since high school in St. Louis. They each won championships in their respective sports within a week of each other in June 2024.
EW8X TIL a portion of the “snow” seen on television screens is microwave radiation left over from The Big Bang.
PYGmg TIL that Charles Curtis, Vice President to Herbert Hoover, was of Native American ancestry and grew up partly among the Kaw tribe
9gBp TIL Before the introduction of the catacombs, there was once a cemetery so overflowing with bodies in central Paris they made soap with the fat of the corpses and had houses with bones protruding from the rooftops of adjacent houses.