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TIL that the Chinese government banned Winnie the Pooh for looking too much like their President

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g554 TIL that 54% of the troops who landed in Normandy on D-Day were British & Canadian
vRRx TIL: The largest known impact crater in the USA is under the Chesapeake Bay
x9Pk TIL the reason peanut butter doesn’t go bad is its aridity; with a moisture content of about 2%, it doesn’t contain enough water to support bacterial and fungal growth.
wojLW TIL that early versions of Sudoku started appearing in French newspapers in the late 19th century, with the paper La France’s version called the “diabolical magic square”
WemX TIL from 1970 to 2010, populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish have declined by an average of 52%. We are not in the “beginning” of the Sixth Great Extinction. We are in the middle of it.