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TIL that the largest gun built in World War 1 could fire a shell into the stratosphere.

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D17Pe TIL that the Mongols would catapult the dead bodies of soldiers infected by the bubonic plague over city walls during sieges. This was one of the earliest known accounts of biological warfare.
mV7M TIL The Guinness Brewery originally signed a 9000 year lease for only 45 pounds a year
QNb1X TIL of death flights, a form of extrajudicial killing in which captives are thrown out of planes or helicopters and later reported as "missing", most notable for being used by Argentine Junta during the 1976-1983 Dirty War.
xBN5 TIL almost all the weight thats removed when you lose weight exits out your nose as carbon dioxide in your breath
dDxLj TIL: At 8 minutes 42, Don McLean's American Pie is the 6th longest song to enter the Billboard Hot 100. At the time of release it was the longest. The song held the record for being the longest song to reach number one for almost 50 years before Taylor Swift's All Too Well broke the record in 2021.