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TIL over 8 million horses died in WW1. Of those who survived, most were sent to Belgian butchers, being regarded as unfit for any other purpose.

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YpQ8v TIL according to Noel Gallagher, one of the two reasons "Don't Look Back In Anger" uses the piano riff from "Imagine" is to "wind people up". He also doesn't fully know what the song means, as he wrote it under the influence.
E1Nro TIL that Yugoslavia had smallpox outbreak in 1972. It was eradicated in three months after introducing Marshal law and vaccinating almost entire population of country (18 milion people) in few weeks
6ZkZ TIL that one of the main hypothesis explaining the massive dislike of clowns is the “uncanny valley effect”. The term depicts a valley of negative emotional response caused by things that look human but “aren’t quite there”
Oxd1 TIL The Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World, stood for a mere 50 years before it was destroyed by an earthquake. Its ruins stood and attracted visitors for way longer than the original statue (reportedly hundreds of years) before it was finally recycled for scrap metal.
lo5JA TIL that in 2013 a petition requesting that the United States Government build a Death Star reached 25,000 signatures, the threshold requiring the White House office to make a response. One part of the response was, "The Administration does not support blowing up planets."