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TIL: 7.4% of Switzerland's exports is blood.

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Z0op TIL it would actually take 5 minutes of inhaling an item soaked in chloroform to render a person unconscious
VGbm TIL The most decorated soldier in US history was an orphan who was shunned by his own men for being too small, and was turned away from two other military services before he got the chance to see combat. He was awarded every medal that a soldier could receive.
b6Lx9 TIL that the Japanese during WW2 evacuated over 5000 troops from Kiska, Alaska in 1943 by using the dense fog to avoid the US Fleet that had come to recapture the island
oWB8 TIL that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler praised the British and American propaganda system and attributed this to their victory in the First World War; he pledged that Germany would have its own propaganda system the next time around
R7Ow7 TIL An Ossuary in Hallstatt, Austria holds over 1,000 skulls, 610 of them delicately hand painted. Due to limited space, after 15 years of burial, remains were relocated to St. Micheal's church and graves were reused. People began decorating their ancestors' skulls to make them less anonymous.