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TIL tonic water has nearly the same amount of sugar as most soft drinks

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yVLAw TIL in 1861, Abraham Lincoln suspended “the writ of habeas corpus” which gave military authorities the power to arrest and hold Union dissenters without indictment or arraignment.
E1gE7 During the war at Gallipoli, 6000 bullets per square metre were shot, a shocking statistic that provides some of the perspectives of the brutality of the fighting in this area
kJ04B TIL in 1949, António Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for the psychosurgery procedure leucotomy, ​better known today as the infamous lobotomy.
EOM0 TIL that the entire alphebet and numbers 0-9 can be found on the wings of different types of butterflies
X0okE TIL that in 2022, there were born roughly a million more babies in Nigeria alone, than every single European country combined