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TIL a British army doctor was the lone survivor of a 16,000-strong expeditionary force which was massacred by Afghans in Kabul.

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gkgy TIL scientists have found the oldest organism known, a 100,000-year-old underwater giant nine miles across and weighing 6600 tons, floating in the Mediterranean Sea. This organism is a large patch of asexually-reproducing seagrass.
ZDrp TIL that 87% of the population of the United States is uniquely identifiable with only your zip code, date of birth, and gender.
lJvN TIL that CURRENT data shows Whites outnumber Blacks receiving welfare 2 to 1, despite a recent TIL using 18 yr old data claiming otherwise.
QJxg9 TIL that Microsoft offered Yahoo $44.6 billion for their entire company in 2008, but Yahoo believed that wasn't enough money. In 2016, Yahoo ended up selling to Verizon for $4.83 billion.
9Yj1D TIL, you can be cremated and and turned into a “Natural Reef” which is eco-friendly.