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TIL Winston Churchill suffered a landslide defeat in the 1945 United Kingdom general election following the war

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bJVp TIL, On August 4th, 1985 at the intersection of I-40 and U.S.69, a car and semitrailer carrying military bombs collided. The results were a series of explosions that lead to the deaths of 47 people and the evacuation of 6000 residents of Checotah, OK.
Wk97Y TIL during WWII, American POWs in Japan had a 40% chance of dying compared to American POWs in Germany who had a 1% chance of dying.
gragA TIL about a 61 year old potato farmer who entered an ultramarathon and "shuffled" through the nights to the finish beating second place by 10 hours
OVL1 TIL Scientific research suggests that finishing a crossword puzzle is an effective way to get rid of a song stuck in your head
K88w TIL after Germany’s openly-gay Foreign Minister called him “Europe’s last dictator”, Belarus’s President responded that it was “better to be a dictator than gay”.