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TIL there is a garbage swirl in the ocean the size of Texas.

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WL9X TIL that during WWII British soldiers consumed 72 million Adderall and that Methedrine helped the RAF win the Battle of Britain.
wyGo TIL The largest virus named Pithovirus was found buried in Siberian permafrost with size up to 1.5 microns. It was revived even though it was 30,000 years old and successfully infected cells raising fears that dangerous viruses could emerge from stasis as climate warmed
b9oda TIL of Alexis von Roenne, one of Hitler's most trusted intelligence analysts who secretly despised Hitler and knowingly gave him false information in order to assist the Allies. His actions are believed to have saved thousands of Allied lives.
YpxAZ TIL In 1964 Hildegarde Trabant became the fifthtieth person (and one of eight women) to be killed at the Berlin Wall. A member of the Communist Party and married to a member of the police force, she was reportedly fleeing an abusive marriage when she was killed at the age of 37.
D1bbJ TIL that word boondock come from Tagalog bundok ‘mountain.’ American soldiers stationed in the Philippines adopted the word in the early 1900s, shifting the meaning to refer to "an isolated or wild region."