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TIL Groundwater wells in old times were dug by pick and shovel until the digger couldn't bail anymore

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XEENj TIL That on November 11, 1918 on the last day of WW1 , General Pershing sent American troops to fight the Germans to “teach them a lesson” even though he knew an armistice was signed. Over 3,000 Americans were killed, wounded , or captured.
LP9 TIL George Lucas stated Yoda is “actually the illegitimate child of Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.”
0jnv TIL the very first vlogger started in 1999, and is still going today, with only 1,206 subscribers.
J1Q7m TIL: Astronauts who come back from the moon have to go through customs
XE8gR TIL in 2016, a 17-year-old girl in Denmark successfully stopped an assault by using pepper spray. The man was never caught, but she was charged for the illegal possession of pepper spray.