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TIL that itally has its own distinctive variety of rice

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LQmy9 TIL that the last living person who was at the Alamo during the battle died less than a month before the end of World War 1. He was not even a year old when the battle occurred.
vP0xB TIL about Operation X-Ray, a WW2 program to develop an incendiary bomb attached to the chests of bats. Dropped in a tube over Japanese cities, it was thought that the bats would go to roost under the eaves of the largely wooden buildings, and when the timed devices went off, the cities would burn.
d84kd TIL according to declassified Soviet archives, during Stalin’s great purge of 1937/1938 over 1.5 million people were detained, of whom 681,692 were shot (an average of 1,000 executions a day). In comparison, the Tsarists executed 3,932 persons for political crimes from 1825 to 1910.
m1pGP TIL in 1909, while investigating rumors that a stone had fallen from the sky already covered in human writing, American explorer Frederick Burnham discovered an 8-foot long boulder featuring ancient inscriptions which remain untranslated.
D0NV TIL - The longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name - the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.