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TIL There is only one female sniper in the US Army and the public doesn't know her name

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vPlQj TIL of the Batavia, a Dutch East India Company ship that wreaked off the west coast of Australia in 1629. A war between the survivors broke out, as a merchant onboard led a plot to murder and enslave the others and found a personal kingdom.
E10Dw TIL Bill Hader wrote the Fish Sticks joke for South Park
0we5j TIL: The world's largest hour-glass contains one tonne of sand and it takes a year for all the sand to drain from the top to the bottom.
kODYm TIL: Claiming his first belt at 20 years, four months, and 22 days old, Mike Tyson holds the record as the youngest boxer ever to win a heavyweight title.
P1dNg TIL about 55 Cancri e. A hellish "diamond planet" twice as big as Earth where a year lasts 18 hours, has an ocean of molten lava on one side, and a crushing pressure that turns a large portion of its carbon interior into diamond.