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TIL that five Lithuanian soldiers serving in a reconnaissance unit were declared missing during a military exercise. They thought the drill was ongoing and successfully evaded all forces sent to find them, including trained dogs and a helicopter

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wLJ9E TIL that starting a sentence with 'and' is perfectly acceptable.
APro TIL That in 1894 there was the “Great Horse-Manure Crisis” in New York City and London. Where some envisioned that in 50 years time the streets of London would be buried under 9 feet of horse manure. The problem was solved with the invention of the automobile.
R1Rj TIL in 1911 electric cars were seen as cleaner, quieter, and easier to use than gasoline-powered cars.
VBA7B TIL that one of the main perpetrators of the Putumayo genocide escaped justice and continued to exploit the same tribes. Before the Putumayo border change in 1933, Miguel S. Loayza forced the migration of 6,719 natives in to Peru. More than half of them died. Loayza survived into his nineties.
e0yRE TIL About Nikola Petkov, a Bulgarian revolutionary who helped establish Bulgaria as a republic, only to be executed by its government after a show trial when he tried to preserve democracy