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TIL the U.S. has a PvP zone

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eg7D TIL that the red-tailed hawk’s screech is commonly dubbed over the bald eagle’s in television and movies.
KONlR TIL that Naftaly Frenkel was a prisoner in a Soviet Union work camp who proposed that inmates' food rations be linked to their rate of production. He was promoted to guard and eventually commandant. He would later oversee construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal by forced labor.
epW4 TIL Scientists lit a cave of natural gas on fire in 1971 expecting it to only burn for a few days; it still burns till this day. it has been nicknamed “The Door to Hell”
WkOZB TIL in the 1950s a scientist used a mirror to focus the enery from a nuclear explosion to light his cigarette
JOV TIL that there are more Americans in the Philippines than in the UK.