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x6j8g TIL the deepest fish ever recorded was found at a depth of 8,336 meters, more than twice the depth of the Titanic.
OdeR TIL an iPhone has about 75 elements in it — two-thirds of the periodic table.
graky TIL of St Clair’s Defeat of 1791, when British armed Native Americans inflicted one of the worst ever defeats on the US Military.
BrgLd TIL in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a central African country entered as Northern Rhodesia and left as Zambia becoming the first country to change its name and flag during the games.
6998l TIL: Back in 1910, Citibank took over the national bank of Haiti, which besides being the sole commercial bank also served as the Haitian treasury and then in 1915 after both withholding Haitian funds and paying rebels to destabilize the country, the bank pressured the US Government to occupy Haiti