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TIL NATO was never involved in any conflict until the Cold War was over. Now its already conflict #6

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X75P TIL that a town called Redditt, Ontario had a highway 666 running through it, but a church successfully petitioned to have it renumbered, so that their address wasn’t on the “highway to hell.”
p85nO TIL the Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) is one of the very few venomous mammals capable of actually injecting its venom like a snake through specially modified teeth. The second lower incisors have special grooves through which venom flows. The venom can kill mice in 2 to 6 minutes.
nex0B TIL a man endured 440 days drifting across the Pacific Ocean until he was found in the Marshall Islands in 2013, emaciated and wearing only his underpants, having swum ashore.
kJkE7 TIL On average, a person passes gas around 14 times a day. That’s roughly once every 1.5 hours!
B9rL TIL Historians believe the fate of Christianity hinged on the Battle of Tours where an Arab invasion force was defeated by a Frankish force in present-day France, preventing the spread of Islam to all of Western Europe and preserving Christianity as the religion of Europe.