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TIL American test scores have always been historically low and they are actually higher today than in the 1960s

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v19wx TIL at David Niven's funeral, the largest wreath was from the porters at Heathrow Airport with a card reading "To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a porter feel like a king."
D1O4r TIL Nepal, a tiny Himalayan nation, contributed almost 200,000 men and £1,000,000 to the British government during WW1
PO4G TIL during World War II, Polish doctors Stanislaw Matulewicz and Eugeniusz Lazowski infected Jews with a microbe Proteus OX19, which exhibits symptoms of typhus, which lead Nazi doctors to quarantine and stop deportations in fear of infecting Nazi troops, thus saving thousands of lives.
6QNw TIL a German startup build the world’s largest aircraft hanger and then went bust. The hangar is now one of the world’s largest water parks containing the world’s largest indoor rainforest.
VBKyQ Today I learned about the battle of Wabash, aka the battle of a thousand slain, considered one of the worst defeats in US military history in which 1400 Army troops faced 1100 Native Americans resulting in 21 Native American deaths and almost 700 American deaths