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TIL that the first and last British casualties of WWI aren’t just buried in the same cemetery, they’re buried facing each other.

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lnnr TIL that the biggest ever storm on record was Typhoon Tip in 1979 - 2,200km wide, 305km/h winds.
XE7OE TIL that Luciano Pavarotti’s childhood dream was to become a professional football goalkeeper, but his mother convinced him to train as a teacher.
awGNb TIL that warmer seas and oceans increase the occurence of the organism Noctiluca, that creates the beautiful blue luminscence in seas and oceans. The latest finding is that the loss of snow and ice in the himalayas changes the ecosystem in the Arabian Sea.
jND9M TIL that in 2009 Icelandic engineers accidentally drilled into a magma chamber with temperatures up to 1000C (1832F). Instead of abandoning the well like a previous project in Hawaii, they decided to pump water down and became the most powerful geothermal well ever created.
xV5B0 TIL McDonald's French Fry in the USA has 14 ingredients, in the UK (and the rest of Europe) it has 4 ingredients