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TIL London has a secret, 2nd underground rail network

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b6JxQ TIL that the final straw for Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait was the Kuwaiti emir telling the Iraqi Foreign Minister his intention to turn "every Iraqi woman into a $10 prostitute" by ruining Iraq financially
XEKN8 TIL of the top 200 WW2 Fighter 'aces', 195 of them were German. The other 5 were made up of 3 Japanse and 2 Finnish.
9YpVQ TIL that Mola Mola (Ocean Sunfish) have the potential to grow more than 60 million times their birth size, arguably the most extreme size growth of any vertebrate animal.
Oo6NR TIL that in 1937 the Hershey Company made a high calorie chocolate bar designed to taste "a little better than a baked potato" for the US Army so that soldiers would only eat it in case of real emergency
oENA TIL the world population living in extreme poverty went from 94% of the world population in 1820, down to 9.6% of the world population in 2015.