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TIL that a Nielsens study found that the average hour of television in 2014 had close to 15 minutes and 30 seconds of commercials

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LJjm TIL In WW2, The Allies estimated German average monthly tank production using statistical analysis of their serial numbers. They were off by one.
9OGr TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous phrase “Where they burn books, they will also in the end burn people.”
4kMWb TIL one individual of Myotis brandtii (a small bat species about a third the size of a mouse) was recaptured "still hale & hearty" 41 years after it was initially banded. Which is the equivalent to about 240-280 human years, with the bat showing little to no sign of aging.
Ypv47 TIL 442nd Infantry Regiment which comprised of 2nd Gen Japanese Americans is the most decorated unit in US military history.
wXMW TIL a drunk Boris Yeltsin tried to hail a taxi outside the White House in his underpants-to get a pizza