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w4BM TIL of The Great Migration, or the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970.
d8bEQ TIL The Siege of Stalingrad resulted in more Russian deaths (military and civilian) than the US and Britain sustained (combined) in all of World War II.
J1XMl TIL humans are pumping out so much groundwater that it's changed Earth's tilt 31.5-inches since 1993.
vPa6K TIL that just before Laika went into space, one of the scientists using her for testing brought her home to play with his children. Knowing that she would not survive her journey
j6RmN TIL that in 1988, researchers ran a jet at 500MPH into a wall of reinforced concrete to prove a nuclear reactor could withstand a direct collision with an airplane. The collision pushed the wall back 6 feet but left only a 2.36 deep scratch while the plane was reduced to scrap.