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TIL the world's longest burning fire is 6000 years old

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KYMaG TIL: Douglas MacArthur wanted to use atomic bombs to contain China and ultimately win the Korean War.
kOmWm TIL after John Krasinski shot the pilot episode of "The Office," he went back to being a waiter for a bit. "I was sure nothing was going to happen with it."
GVj7 TIL that General Eisenhower ordered every citizen Gotha, Germany to tour the concentration camp Ohrdruf. After the mayor of the town and his wife did so, they went home and hanged themselves (#80)
grM0b TIL about the Battle of Dupplin Moor, where an English army defeated a Scottish army at least 10 times larger. Many of the Scots were compressed into a valley and suffocated, unable to fight or move.
OGg47 TIL the given name Mallory comes from the French nickname "Malheure" which means "unlucky and unfortunate".