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TIL, in 2015, a USAF AC-130 Destroyed A Médecins Sans Frontières Hospital Killing over 40 People But No Independent Investigation Was Carried Out For The Warcrime

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rrN1 TIL that there are more dedicated electric car charging stations in Japan than there are gas stations.
YpO0v TIL That professional chess players can burn up to 6,000 calories a day despite their limited movement thanks to elevated blood pressures during matches.
Y1gG TIL the Illuminati was an actual secret society whose goals were “to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.”
0wA7R TIL that in 17th-century Poland, wet bread mixed with spider webs was used to cure wounds. It may sound stupid, but it work, as the bread contained fungal spores, including penicillin and naturally produced antibiotic substances.
RwJ8 TIL Genghis Khan killed enough people to cool the earth, 40 million people were killed and vast areas of farmland were reclaimed by forests