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TIL the the Civil War cost 620,000 American lives, more than this country’s other wars combined, from the Revolution through Vietnam. That was about 2% of the population; if it happened now, historians estimate, the equivalent number of dead would total 6 million.

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ne8nB TIL there’s a laser procedure being developed that safely breaks up brown eye pigment (melanin) in the iris. Effectively changing one's eye color from brown to blue, since blue eyes exist under all brown eyes.
gmYy TIL that in 2006 a private company launched 2 unmanned inflatable space stations, they are still functioning and combined have completed over 80,000 orbits of the earth
6J5l TIL in 1983, a struggling Atari dumped tons of unsold, unsalable inventory into a pit in Alamogordo, New Mexico. This was considered an urban legend until 30 years later, when they were unearthed by an excavation crew. The haul included E.T., Atari catalogs, and Raiders of the Lost Ark promotionals.
8aEjG TIL of Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman al-Hussayen, a senior official in Saudi Arabia, who stayed in the same hotel as the 9/11 hijackers the night before the attacks. He feigned a seizure when interviewed by the FBI and flew back to Saudi Arabia after flights resumed, against the FBI’s recommendation.
knJ4 TIL The release of Halo 2 was delayed because one of the developers hid a picture of his butt within the game.