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TIL Approximately 40% of the United States’ homeless population are war veterans.

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y8ma TIL that General Eisenhower, among other WW2 military leaders, thought the atomic bomb to be completely unnecessary and excessively cruel.
N7LY6 TIL that a Dutch scientist is working with other scientists to create glow-in-the-dark trees in hopes to use them as streetlights
oRNao TIL On Shrove Tuesday 1229 some University of Paris students got into fight over a bar tab and attacked a tavern. The students had benefit of clergy but the city guard killed some of them. The students responded with strike for two years until the school was given independence from local authority.
pYa78 TIL The Undertaker was engulfed in flames during his entrance at 2010’s WWE Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, but he remained in character for the entirety of the match, despite being on the receiving end of 1st and 2nd-degree burns and a chest burn that would bubble up during the match.
ObZL TIL that according to the Inflation theory, our unobservable universe may be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times larger than the already mind-bogglingly massive observable universe.