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TIL that after Winter War out of 5,572 soviet prisoners of war returned from Finland 4,354 were sentenced to imprisonment in labor camps and 232 executed

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0wEwA TIL the left and the right only believe facts that follow their conditioned narrative, and completely silence, deplatform or block truth and factual information they oppose.
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JYk5l TIL that the U.S. Constitution gives the Senate the sole power to declare war and that the last time they did was for WWII.
E1Y4W TIL Minesweeper and Solitaire were added to Windows back in the 3.1 days, to train mouse discipline without the users even realizing they were learning. Solitaire was added to teach users how to Drag and Drop, Minesweeper taught using the right/left mouse buttons and mouse precision/control
4R0J TIL that the world record for most miles driven by a car is held by a Volvo P-1800S at 2,850,000 miles or about 114 times around the planet.