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TIL The youngest soldier in WWI was only 8 years old.

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e0yXb TIL that a small but powerful tropical cyclone (called: Typhoon Gay) caused more than 800 fatalities in and around the Gulf of Thailand in November 1989.
GAD91 TIL that Aimo Allan Koivunen was a Finnish soldier in the Continuation War and the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat. He escaped Soviet forces, was injured by a land mine, and stayed in a ditch for a week, after having skied more than 400 km (248.5 mi).
Wk8Mo TIL about Ray Chapman: the only player to die from injury during a MLB game. It was allowed at the time to do anything to the ball from using saliva to dirt, making the ball hard to see. Chapman is believed to not have seen the ball at all which struck him in the head and killed him
QJx1L TIL Clyde Barrow of crime-duo Bonnie & Clyde was sentenced to a 14 year prison-sentence for auto theft in 1930. Two years into his sentence he decided to chop off two of his toes in order to get out of doing hard labor. Unbeknownst to him, he would be paroled six days later.
LQBpr TIL one of the ways to make Okinawan snake wine involves putting the snake on ice until it passes out, at which point it is gutted, bled and sewn up. When the viper is thawed and awakens, it will quickly die in an aggressive striking manner, which is what most producers look for.