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TIL that catapults were used in WWI to throw grenades into enemy trenches.

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LkgNv TIL at the Teheran Conference, Stalin proposed executing 50,000–100,000 German officers. Roosevelt, believing Stalin was not serious, joked that "maybe 49,000 would be enough". Churchill ended up storming out of the room and did not come back until Stalin claimed that the proposal was a joke indeed.
mxjay TIL Jimmy Carter called Egyptian president Sadat’s assassination in 1981 “one of the worst days of my life.” Carter knew Sadat's successsor, Mubarak, quite well. Decades later, Carter became disappointed and stopped speaking to Mubarak after he stayed in power too long
1Ja7 TIL The whoopee cushion is older than Christianity
6EkQJ TIL that a lost wallet led to the 5th Dimension recording “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In.”After one of the group’s members left his wallet in a taxi, a producer of “Hair” found it and invited the singers to the Broadway show, inspiring them to record what became one of 1969’s biggest hits.
m1p5M TIL a gas cloud in space has been discovered with alcohol, enough to produce 400 trillion pints of beer.