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TIL the Red Army used ticking clocks and haunting messages over loudspeakers to torment the encircled Germans at Stalingrad

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QNxyd TIL when he was an Illinois state legislator, Abraham Lincoln was challenged to a duel by state auditor James Shields. Lincoln insisted on broadswords as the weapon rather than pistols prompting Shields to back out and call for a truce.
P5yG TIL Costco sells approximately 60,000,000 rotisserie chickens every year.
OoZlX TIL In addition to "pig latin" there is an actual phrase called "dog latin", which is effectively the creation of fake phrases made to sound like Latin, the most common example of which is probably "Biggus Dickus."
x6mPk TIL that in a 2024 study from the University of Illinois, 2,500 participants were asked to categorize 12 different statements as being either facts or opinions, and nearly half (45.7%) of the subjects performed no better than a coin flip.
KOOeE For a while, yes, but you will eventually run into nutritional deficiencies.