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TIL sand is the second most used natural resource worldwide, after fresh water

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9OD6 TIL During a major Civil War battle, both armies briefly stopped fighting to watch a fist fight between two opposing soldiers who had both taken cover in the same place.
D10Ve TIL Throughout the 1930s, Hollywood studios worked with Nazi Germany to self-censor and avoid certain topics and depictions in their movies in order to avoid being banned from the (then) lucrative German film market.
4A7N TIL that immediately after the founding of Israel on May 14, 1948, before their defense force was even founded, five Arab nations (Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan) declared war on it
emD4 TIL Zombie by the Cranberries was written as a protest song, and in memory of two boys who were killed in an IRA bombing.
jNLXM TIL about the story when Ayrton Senna crashed because the wall moved