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TIL in 2007 scientists froze light in it’s tracks, converted it to matter, and then re-started it a distance away

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Rol TIL during the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, one Israeli tank commander single-handedly fought off an entire advancing Syrian tank battalion, taking advantage of the darkness and moving constantly to make the Syrians believe they were facing a full Israeli armored division while destroying 40 Syrian tanks.
WDQX TIL General Mills’ Wheaties cereal contain so many metal fragments they could actually be lifted with a magnet
b4ba TIL that after the Treaty of Versailles, Marshal Ferdinand Foch said “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years”. 20 years and 65 days later, WW2 broke out.
8Q4P TIL that in a competition to build the world’s tallest building, the architect of the Chrysler Building secretly built it with a 125 ft long spire inside of it. When his competitor’s building was completed, the spire was pushed up through the building making it taller by 119 ft
BjBx TIL the Arctic Shrew is so territorial that if two are placed together, one will drop dead within a few days, even without physical injuries.