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TIL ABOUY The first large-scale battle fought by American soldiers in World War. And it happened in BELLA WOOD.

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kOg4B TIL that the USSR successfully used a 30 kilotons nuclear bomb to put out a burning gas well in Uzbekistan in 1966
m1loo TIL A video game called JFK:Reloaded was released in 2004, where you get to play as Oswald and score points for killing Kennedy the same way it happened historically.
nWWXP TIL Glaciers are not the second largest reservoir of water on Earth as previously thought. A 2021 study showed that groundwater is the second largest reservoir of water (at 43.9 million km^3) after Oceans (1.3 billion km^3). Glaciers are a distant third at 158,000 km^3.
l4p1 TIL that in 2012 the laws of succession were altered to allow the eldest child born within the British Royal family, regardless of gender, to precede his or her siblings.
OoWg4 TIL DeepSqueak software identifies rodent vocalizations using neural networks like those developed for self-driving cars. Researchers have found about 20 different calls, such as happy ones when anticipating a reward or playing with friends, or courtship when males are with females.