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TIL If the human eye were a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.

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BgBrW TIL "sideburns" got their name from American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside, who was known for his unusual facial hairstyle that connected thick sideburns by way of a moustache, but left the chin clean-shaven.
59p8 TIL Daniel Inouye was a Japanese American soldier in WWII who led an extremely triumphant battle against Nazi forces, in which he cooked a grenade in his right hand, was shot in his right arm, and pried the grenade out with his left and threw it to destroy a German bunker.
R5yNQ TIL the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) was so devastating that it wiped out 60–70% of the country's entire population, and is listed in the Guinness World Records for the highest proportional death toll from war for any single country.
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loD6A TIL that because the UK Royal Navy's Astute class nuclear powered submarines can purify their own air and water and run on nuclear fuel, that the endurance is only limited to 90 days due to breakfast storage capacity for 18,000 sausages and 4200 Weetabix