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TIL that a quarter of all British land forces during the American Revolution were actually German auxiliaries or mercenaries.

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ADawd TIL the Queen bee is too fat to fly after being pregnant, so when the worker bees want her to relocate the hive they chase her around the hive for week until she’s skinny enough to fly.
E1abW TIL that the Soviet Union loved Bollywood films. The values of Indian society and the USSR were very similar and the socialist country enjoyed the common rags to riches narrative. In fact, the highest grossing film of the Soviet Era was a 1982 Bollywood film called Disco Dancer.
R7657 TIL It is impossible to wash clothes on board the International Space Station. It would take too much water. The astronauts wear their clothes until they are too dirty and then throw them out. All ISS waste burns up in the atmosphere on re-entry.
jNDbX TIL there is only one mammal species that uses stridulation as a means of communication with other members of its group. The lowland streaked tenrec, native to Madagascar, uses its spines to create high-pitched sounds by rubbing them against each other just as crickets use their scrapers to chirp.
08Nv TIL Czech slave laborers during WWII put notes instead of explosives in the anti-aircraft shells they were forced to manufacture.