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TIL of Säkkijärven polkka. A Finnish folk-song played repeatedly over radio during the Soviet-Finnish War to block radio-controlled mines

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xP4g TIL Homefront, a video game released in early 2011, based on a war against a North Korean global power, has so far successfully predicted both the year of Kim Jong-Il’s death (2011) and North Korea’s nuclear test in 2013.
696Em TIL the planet Neptune isn't deep blue, and looks closer in color to Uranus; the correct shades of the planets have been confirmed in a study published in September 2023
P1L6L TIL that children were protected for the first time from overwork at the factories only in 1833, with UK’s Factory Act which prohibited the employment of children under nine, limited their working hours, and insisted they should receive schooling.
VBVDp TIL The reason tennis balls are yellow is largely thanks to Sir David Attenborough
9gVr TIL In a poll of incoming Princeton University freshman in 1939 Adolf Hitler was chosen as the “greatest living person.” Albert Einstein who was a Princeton professor at the time came in second.