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TIL that the Wehrmacht suffered 80% of its military deaths in WW2 on the Eastern Front

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yQ8Mv TIL in 2007, Siberia experienced orange snow. This orange snow was ruled to most likely caused by a heavy sandstorm in neighboring Kazakhstan. Tests on the snow revealed numerous sand and clay dust particles and a high iron-content, which were blown into Russia in the upper stratosphere.
8aYNZ TIL that Alexander Hamilton, in addition to helping write the Constitution and being first Treasury Secretary, also was the commander of the entire U.S. Army for six months.
gMxWW TIL Despite having different names asteroids - meteors and meteorites are all the same thing - just in different places. When it's still in space it's called an asteroid - when it enters Earth's atmosphere it's called a meteor and if it actually hits the surface it is a meteorite
GA9E TIL of the Holodomor, the man made famine inflicted upon the Ukrainians by the Soviets in 1932/33. Western governments ignored it due to the desire to gain the Soviets as an ally in trade and war. By the 1937 census, 11,000,000 Ukrainians were no longer present. Some left, but most starved to death.
9wLlD TIL Kallanai Dam is The Oldest Dam in the World Still in Use