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TIL Walt Disney World is 40 square miles, making it the same size as San Francisco and 2x the size of Manhattan.

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Z8lrv TIL of the great Sikh warrior Banda Singh Bahadur who fought against the Mughals and avenged Guru Gobind Singh who suffered at the hands of the traitorous and tyrannical Mughals. He was eventually captured along with his 700 soldiers and executed along with his four year old son in his lap.
oAgA TIL That despite having 18 Senators and Congressmen that deny climate change exists, records show that Texans lead the list of disaster relief recipients in 2011 and 2012, taking over $5.2 billion in government aid from federal programs and agencies.
1xPP TIL the influenza epidemic of 1918 was so bad that it caused average life expectancy in the US to drop 12 years
kJ6g TIL that when Bill Nye The Science Guy’s father was a POW in Japan during WWII for four years, he made sundials to figure out the latitudinal location of the prison camp.
YpxeB TIL that foxholes dug by American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge in WWII still exist in the French woods to this day