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TIL General Ferdinand Foch (Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in WWI) said of the Treaty of Versailles “This is not a peace treaty. This is an armistice for twenty years.” The Second World War began 20 years and 64 days later.

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pkJA TIL in 1986 a truck carrying sulfuric acid crashed in Spain - the driver and his wife were found dead, but there was no sign of their son, apart from his shoes. Interpol has called it the ‘strangest missing person case in Europe’
KOjK9 TIL there was once a 65 foot ski slope inside New York's Grand Central Station.
xVolw TIL the world's oldest living clam, "Ming the clam", was accidentally killed when scientists tried to figure out how old it was. Upon inspection they found it was 507 years old, 100 years older than previously speculated.
QNgGM TIL: African spiny mice can lose 60% of the skin on their backs and re-grow the lost tissue without scarring! Researchers are looking into the genes responsible for this because these genes work in mammalian systems (growing back fur, muscle, etc) and could work in rehab medicine.
NXAKP TIL: Foetal cells can remain in the mother's, even embedding on different organs of the mother, for decades, sometimes for a lifetime.