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TIL one of the most important Allied aircraft of WWII, the De Havilland Mosquito, was built mainly from wood

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6lDJ TIL France killed 45,000 Algerian civilians in two weeks in 8th of May 1945 who did nothing but went out to the streets demanding independence that they were promised after WWII
dmr9 TIL carrots used to be purple until they were bred orange.
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gr5bX TIL that in the event of a U.S. military draft, members of the Florida State Guard (a state-level Civil Defense organization) are immune from conscription
xEl7 TIL in 1982, 5 men walked into a Long Island NY diner and forced over 100 patrons and staff to strip and have sex with each other. They also shot 2 men, raped a waitress, and robbed everyone there. Oh, and that was just the last thing they did that night.