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TIL The 4.2 kiloyear event was one of the greatest climate shifts of the Holocene epoch, and is implicated in the fall of several ancient empires

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1bn4 TIL The French tried to counter attack Germany in 1939, but were repulsed by “The silent soldier”…“a definitive weapon of the war”. New German mines that would fire themselves out of the ground before going off, wounding not just the soldier, but everybody else around them, as well.
nVbo TIL the outspoken feminist and author Camille Paglia has actually been a strong critic against modern feminism, stating that “feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.”
8JNG TIL General Motors pays its CEO more than it pays in US taxes
9jeX TIL that there is a frog that swallows its eggs, and then gives birth to live frogs by vomiting them out of her stomach
xVVXD TIL despite repeated warnings by safety inspectors to install smoke alarms and sprinklers, the Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure had burned down in 1984 killing 8 teenagers.