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TIL the memorial in Normandy where WWII soldiers are buried is actually considered American soil

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v1A1B TIL There were less than 60 years between the Wright brothers first flight in an airplane and the first human being launched into space (1903 - 1961)
7rZWX TIL that Lithuania was the last pagan nation in Europe, before their official adoption of Roman Catholic in 1387
O8Z1 TIL that US forces in Afghanistan dropped small, yellow cluster bombs which (if they didn’t detonate on impact) were easily mistaken for the small, yellow food rations they also dropped.
JYMXB TIL During Hurricane Harvey, the National Weather Service had to add two new colors to the rain accumulation map as the old color key topped out at an amount of rain they never before thought would fall.
QJZJd Til of Gwangju Massacre in 1980 where hundred of civilians and students were killed by the dictatorship army.