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TIL of the estimated ~1100 eponymous "Stradavarius" instruments made by Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737) only about 58% are thought to survive.

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nByd TIL that in 1945, 900 Japanese soldiers were forced to retreat through 10 miles of mangrove swamp, during which hundreds were to be eaten by the thousands of saltwater crocodiles lying wait, in what is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the “Worst crocodile disaster in the world”.
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