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TIL only one American soldier has been executed for desertion since the civil war. Eddie Slovik was executed by firing squad for fleeing after being assigned to a front-line rifle company.

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d8keZ TIL about the Bangladesh genocide of 1971. This was the largest genocide since the Holocaust, with upwards of 3,000,000 people dying.
6og8 TIL scientists have successfully genetically engineered American chestnut trees to resist the blight that annihilated them, bringing back a species from functional extinction.
GYn75 TIL that some scientists theorize that the origin of life is just the inevitable outcome of thermodynamics as a middle-step to increase overall entropy in the universe.
mgmE TIL that Your Brain Stays Half Awake When You Sleep In A New Place
9wvOQ TIL that banana plants can 'walk'