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TIL that Lethbridge Alberta had the second largest POW camp in North America during WW2

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QJwn9 TIL an enormous Buddhist relic known as the Buddha's Begging Bowl, weighing 350 to 400 kg, is kept in the Kabul museum. When the Taliban captured Kabul, they destroyed all other Buddhist relics except the bowl, since at some point Quranic verses were inscribed on it.
6EJWY TIL that the percentage in a rain forecast is not the likelihood of it raining in the area, but the percentage of the area that will get rain.
60kW TIL The greatest tank ace in history wasn’t a high ranking German officer, but a young enlisted Czech auto worker. He was never given a Knights cross because he beat up an officer he saw abusing prisoners of war.
vPBNj TIL about an illustrious Royal Navy ship name, passed down through four ships for one hundred and thirty five years, but for some unknown reason never used again after 1947. I present to you the history of the ‘HMS Cockchafer’
NXy0N TIL the 2022 World Series was the first to field no U.S.-born Black players since 1950.