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TIL that in India an estimated 1.2 million people have died of snake bites since 2000.

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ONp1 TIL a Japanese soldier in WWII who refused to believe the war was over held out for 29 years in the jungles of the Philippines. He didn’t “surrender” until his former commanding officer traveled to the Philippines to officially relieve him of duty.
e0E9n TIL that Motorola Razr is still being released after first being released in 2004
811G TIL: that there is a town called Redditch. Redditch once produced 90% of the world’s needles.
X0Zj6 TIL that sideburns are named after U.S. Civil War General Ambrose Burnside who was noted for his unusual beard, the word burnsides was coined to describe this style. The syllables were later reversed to give sideburns
l7eya TIL that a small herd of cows in Germany were trained to use special toilets in an effort to curb pollution