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

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k0kd TIL The “Regular Show” was based off a short where two gas station workers trip on Acid.
P19lG TIL of the Arisan Maru, a Japanese "hell ship" that was torpedoed while carrying Allied prisoners of war. None of the 1,781 passengers were killed by the explosion, but other Japanese ships refused to rescue them, resulting in only 9 survivors.
Bj0D TIL that Queen Elizabeth I had a vast spy network and one of her spies signed his reports with “007.” This was later used by Ian Fleming, writer of James Bond.
xV6xb Til The A.I computer designed to think like a serial killer to decode the zodiac killers letters, writes morbid poetry as a “hobby”.
pwPA TIL that the Vatican City is named after the hill that it’s built upon, the name of which pre-dates Christianity