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TIL that at the Battle of Tsushima the ratio of Russian sailors killed to Japanese was roughly 50:1

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59Qp TIL that the backgrounds of Batman The Animated Series were drawn on black paper instead of white to show a darker tone.
7WKM TIL that the Dutch have a word, “swaffelen,” or, as it was told to me, “zwaffelen,” for the act of smacking one’s penis repeatedly against an object.
AXed TIL due to its popularity with Muslims, until 1600 church leaders were calling coffee “the bitter invention of Satan”. Upon tasting coffee Pope Clement VIII declared, “This devil’s drink is so delicious…we should cheat the devil by baptizing it.”
Rob9 TIL in 1997, the USS Yorktown’s entire propulsion system failed after attempting to divide by zero
W79mX TIL that some employers use military-grade surveillance tools originally developed for the Pentagon and the CIA to track staff behavior, emotions, fatigue, work intensity, and productivity.