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TIL During the American War of Independence, more Americans died as prisoners of war on British prison ships than all of the Revolutionary War engagements combined.

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yrP8 TIL enough people are so certain that the “Berenstain Bears” were once spelled “Berenstein” that it has sparked a theory that they’re from a parallel universe.
eE46 TIL that the Hubble Space Telescope has collected more than 100 TB of data and generates 844 GB per month.
b96DN TIL Christopher Nolan had a cornfield grown for the farm scenes in Interstellar, he later sold the corn for a profit.
5YPbn TIL of Kelly, a dolphin whose trainers gave her fish for bringing them litter/dead gulls to clean her pool. She started hiding fish under a rock in her pool, then used fish to lure gulls which she brought to her trainers to get more fish. She taught her calf the strategy, who taught more calves.
Y7GRW TIL about the 2009 satellite collision where two satellites crashed into each other. Three years later a piece of debris from that collision passed the ISS at a distance of 120 m (390 ft) and all crew members had to take refuge inside two docked spacecraft