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TIL almost 2/3 (61%) of WW2 American servicemen were draftees instead of volunteers

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wjo8 TIL Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” is banned in karaoke bars in the Philippines because several singers have been killed for ‘butchering’ the song.
Mnga TIL The World’s Longest Continuously Running Experiment began in 1927 at the University of Queensland Brisbane testing the viscosity of pitch - 8 drops have formed since it began.
MevmV Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR), the so-called "Korean artificial sun," fusion device has set a world record by maintaining plasma at over 100 million °C (180 million °F) for 20 seconds.
XE5pP TIL A study showed that not only kids, but even adults sleep better while being gently rocked. Participants of the study fell asleep faster, slept more deeply and woke up less in beds that rocked them throughout the night.
wL1ko TIL that the The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog from Monty Python and the Holy Grail comes from a long history of murderous Medieval bunnies