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TIL During the Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet losses were great enough that at one time, the life expectancy of a newly arrived soldier was less than a day and the life expectancy of a Soviet officer was three days.

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6V7X TIL Penn Jillette once cut his thumb open during his Vegas show while juggling broken bottles. He continued performing, bleeding all over props, a double bass, and Teller. The next day the wound was still bleeding so he had it glued shut on the air for his radio show.
1PM8 TIL that the claim that North Korea could kill 90 percent of the American people with an EMP attack was taken from a science fiction novel.
vBG4 TIL that the minimum player salary for Major League Soccer (MLS) is $35,125.00. Last year, 62 players, or 11% of the league, earned that much.
XwEX TIL Soviet Russia built a flying tank.
negxW TIL about D. B. Cooper, a man who, in 1971, hijacked a plane, demanded a ransom of $200,000, got it, then parachuted out of the aircraft clutching the money somewhere over Washington state. The FBI investigation ended in 2016, but he has never been found.