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TIL the last successful bayonet charge was in 2011 by the British Army against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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yEZX TIL The Indian Army during World War II began the war, in 1939, numbering just under 200,000 men.By the end of the war, it had become the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945
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8aD0L TIL The length of the Great Wall of China is more than half the circumference of the Earth
Ypoyx TIL Genghis Khan killed about 10% of the world population.