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TIL Canada was so nice to their POW’s during World War 2 that almost 20% of them requested to stay after the war.

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nW7kG TIL that despite a large British advantage in numbers and experience, Americans defeated the British at New Orleans in 2 hours with a loss of 65 sailors, the British lost 2000.
6ajw TIL the most senior officer to survive the Titanic also participated in evacuating soldiers off the coast of Dunkirk
4aVg TIL sexual intercourse produces five times more hormones than that of masturbation.
Kmx4 TIL of Valentina Vassilyeva, the Russian peasant who gave birth to 69 children by her husband Feodor. None were born solo, as she gave birth 27 different times - 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets. Feodor later had an additional 18 children with his second wife.
5YVJr Characterized by their large green bodies and beak-like teeth, bumphead parrotfish can be found near the coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific. These large corallivores use their mighty teeth to grind up the hard exterior of coral in search of the small creatures living inside. If you've ever visited a beach in these regions, you've probably relaxed on the sandy remnants of this coral-based diet. In other words, that beach is full of crap! National Geographic grantee Mikayla Wujec fills us in in this episode of Today I Learned.