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TIL 2025 = 45², a rare perfect square year ,The last was 1936, the next comes in 2116

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8aA6b TIL about Leo major, a Canadian soldier who captured 100 German soldiers at d-day and later in Holland captured a city all by himself.
R7aK8 TIL the leading cause of non-natural death in the 20th Century was Democide, the murder of a person by their government, which surpasses war.
VBwe4 TIL during the US Invasion of Somalia (Operation Restore Hope) Navy SEALs swam ashore only to be surrounded by reporters who had been tipped off of the coming invasion by a Lieutenant General in a public briefing the day before
KYbE6 TIL that Smokey the Bear was in fact a REAL bear.
1rxO TIL in the 2005 film ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ the chocolate river was made of actual chocolate instead of CGI. It was made of about 192,000 gallons of chocolate.