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TIL that when the Americans liberated Kiska Island from the Japanese during WWII Admiral King told the Secretary of the Navy that Japanese dogs could brew coffee

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yVQVw TIL one Brazil nut contains twice the recommended daily amount of selenium our body requires. One serving of nuts contains about 1000% of your daily allowance.
E1bZ0 TIL about the windshield phenomenon. People tend to find fewer insects smashed on the windscreens of their cars now compared to a decade or several decades ago.
RwJ8 TIL Genghis Khan killed enough people to cool the earth, 40 million people were killed and vast areas of farmland were reclaimed by forests
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rR1v1 TIL that a small town in West Virginia asked the Soviet Union and East Germany for help with replacing a bridge after being ignored by the West Virginian goverment. The Soviets sent a journalist to investigate and within one hour the state finally agreed to pay for it.