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TIL: Only 25% of American combat soldiers in Europe fired their weapons at the enemy during World War 2.

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0ddyA TIL: The British built over 100 concentration camps during the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa. Over 26,000 woman & children died in these camps from starvation & disease
wokv8 TIL that in the United States, crayfish are often referred to as crawfish, crawdads, fiddlers, crawdaddies, or mudbugs. As of 2018, 93% of crawfish farms in the US were located in Louisiana. In 1987, Louisiana produced 90% of the crayfish harvested in the world, 70% of which were consumed locally.
KObww TIL Marvel's near collapse led to dominance. In The 90’s they desperately sold film rights to their characters for operating capital. A few hits(Blade & X-Men) led studios to consider the comic movie viable. Failure by most caused many of the rights to return to Marvel, who created Marvel Studios.
JYJ5m TIL that the chunks of ice that break off of icebergs are officially called "bergy bits"
loD4N TIL that Pete Townshend, lead guitarist for The Who, destroyed 37 guitars in 1967 alone.