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TIL of the Siege of the city of Leningrad which occurred during WW2 and lasted for 872 days. It resulted in over 2 million deaths between the warring factions and the local civilian population. Some experts have classified it as genocide.

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nWo9Y TIL that Gutzon Borglum, the designer and sculptor for Mount Rushmore, was later commissioned to create a statue of Woodrow Wilson in Poznań, Poland. The statue was destroyed in 1945 when the Soviets and Germans fought for control of the city.
7rGjO TIL during the Great Depression, a businessman convinced struggling families from a small town in Florida to buy Coca-Cola shares. The town is now filled with "secret Coke millionaires"
69EdQ TIL U.S. songwriter Billy Davis rewrote a UK jingle for the Coca-Cola Company. The song 'Buy the World A Coke' was rewritten again because people kept calling radio stations asking for the tune to be played. It subsequently became "I'd Like to Teach The World to Sing" and reached #13 on Billboard.
GA7rG TIL: When an electric eel senses prey/ a threat, it sends a signal through its nervous system to the electrocytes. Nerve fibres join each electrocyte on one of its sides. The arrival of a signal causes Na+ ions to flood into the cell. This flow gives rise to a discharge of electricity.
V9RQ TIL in 1927, Calvin Coolidge walked outside of his vacation home to waiting reporters, handed them a slip of paper that said, “I do not choose to run for President in nineteen-twenty-eight.”, took no questions, and went back inside.