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TIL more soldiers were executed during the civil war than all other American wars combined. Two-thirds of them were for desertion.

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7rVQ7 TIL about Krista & Tatiana Hogan. Conjoined twins with a thalamic bridge allowing them to know each other's thoughts and share senses, yet each retains a distinct sense of self. Biologist Peter Watts has described them as the first natural hivemind of the human species (second source in comments)
oB7nA TIL in 1343, while laying siege to a Genoese outpost, a Mongolian army fell ill With plague. During withdrawal, they catapulted the diseased bodies into the city. The inhabitants then also fell ill, and the merchants in the city went on to spread the plague to Constantinople and ultimately Europe.
9r17 TIL cats may spend as much as half of their waking hours licking themselves and those they care about.
dDAvj TIL of Old Whitey, a saponified corpse floating about the engine room of the SS Kamloops sunk off Isle Royale, Lake Superior, in 1927. Unidentified to today, he follows divers around as they explore her wreck. Superior it's said never gives up her dead.
Eg9DW TIL that, because white chocolate is made using only the butter or fat from the cocoa bean, but no cocoa solids, it isn't technically chocolate at all.