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TIL vegetables in Alaska grow gigantic because they receive 20 hours of sunlight a day

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QNxGk TIL that the most recent bubonic plague pandemic lasted from 1855 to 1960, killing 15 million people worldwide.
6krY TIL Many Chinese toddlers wear ‘open-crotch’ pants, allowing them to defecate anywhere, usually on their parents 'cue’.
vQEL TIL that as a 2.5 year old girl, Michelle Funk fell into a creek and was submerged for 66 minutes. When rescuers arrived she didn’t have pulse and was not breathing. 3+ hours after that, her blood was warmed. When it reached 77 degrees F. she came back to life and is still living to this day.
Wk5Y4 TIL : Pacemaker was an accidental discovery by Wilson Greatbatch. Working on a heart-rhythm recorder, he mistakenly added an incorrect electronic component, so that the device produced electrical pulses instead of simply recording them.
ADvwa TIL that, a year before the end of WW I, Germany lodged an official complaint with the United States over the issuing of Winchester M97 "Trench Broom" shotgun to its' troops. So much so that the German military issued a kill order towards any troops carrying either shotguns or shotgun ammunition.