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TIL in World War I, Russia created the “1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death” among other all-female battalions in an effort to shame still-hesitant males to fight in the war

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YpweB TIL about Freddie and Truus Oversteegan, teenage sisters who lured, ambushed and killed German Nazis from their bicycles—and never revealed how many they had assassinated.
neBg9 TIL Thomas Edison listened to the piano through his teeth. As he was completely deaf in one ear and could barely hear in the other he would chomp into the wood of the piano and absorb the sound waves into his skull.
yQZgM TIL when John D. Rockefeller was once asked, "How much money is enough money?" He replied, "Just a little bit more."
j6xa TIL Turkey has the highest age of consent in Europe at age 18 while Spain has the lowest at 13.
Z80pG TIL that according to Cambridge Computer Scientists who collected over 300 million facts, the most boring day in history was April 11th, 1954.