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VM45B TIL that stepping on a Stonefish, the world's most venomous fish, can result in needing crutches to walk for a month (if you survive the sting at all).
X0DG6 TIL One day before the end of WW2, the German Cruise Liner, SS Cap Arcona was attacked and sunk by the RAF. The ship was used to hold concentration camp prisoners and 5000 were killed. Swedish intelligence had passed this information to the allies but it wasn't forwarded to the RAF.
0wPo1 TIL that in 1945 Myanmar, 900 Imperial Japanese soldiers crossed through 10 miles of mangrove swamps that contained saltwater crocodiles in an attempted retreat from the Royal Navy. Less than 500 Japanese soldiers are known to have reached the end of those swamps.
edk6 TIL that Crassus, a Roman general and also one of the richest men in history, used to purchase buildings on fire for a very low price and then put the fires out with his trained army of 500 slaves and rebuild them. If the owners refused to sell their property, he would not engage in firefighting.
6Q5m TIL we’re now exposed to as much data in a single day as someone in the 15th century would be in their entire lifetime.