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TIL about the exclusion zone that roughly cuts Montserrat in half due to volcanic activity

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E1GVx TIL during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, the Hungarian Army, officially fighting on the German side, secretly assisted the Polish resistance, launching "ambushes" on the Poles and then "retreating" immediately, leaving behind massive amounts of weapons and supplies for the Poles to "capture."
JYVYv TIL the word cheesecake has sexual connotations and was used in the 1660s to describe promiscuous women
pNob TIL: In 1631, almost all the copies of King James Bible were recalled and burnt due to a minor typo. The Seventh Commandent stated, “Thou shalt commit adultery”. It was called the ‘Wicked Bible’ or the 'Sinners’ Bible’.
NX7yM TIL The axial tilt of the earth is changing due to ice caps melting, causing changes in weight distribution across the surface of the planet.
R5999 TIL that in world war 2, English soldiers would use passwords that had sounds that the language of the people they where fighting against did not have, so that they could tell if an unidentified person was an enemy soldier tying to infiltrate them by if they said these sounds correctly.