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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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Y7jl7 TIL by the year 2100, the human race will have lost about half of the languages in use today. Every fourteen days a language dies. For native speakers of Navajo, Southwestern Ojibwa, Ohlone or Aragonese, losing their language means losing cultural heritage and history.
GAmG1 TIL That until 2022, the Japanese Public School System forced schoolgirls in Japan were forced to wear specific colours of underwear and were forced to have dyed black hair in school.
9wBbG TIL A quarter of all known animal species are beetles.
nemXY TIL Coffee does not dehydrate you and hydrates nearly the same as water
lojWK TIL, superfetation is the simultaneous occurrence of more than one stage of developing offspring in the same animal, essentially getting pregnant while already pregnant.