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TIL 10-20 percent of USA power outages are caused by squirrels

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ne7Wo TIL that over 2,500,000 Indians volunteered to fight in World War 2, making it the largest all-volunteer army in history.
Wkd1o TIL in 2012 a white power rally in North Carolina was overwhelmed by counter-protestors dressed as clowns throwing white flour and holding "wife power" signs
x7eo TIL - You would get a larger dose of radiation from eating a bag of potato chips every day than you would if you lived next to a nuclear power plant.
nePxb TIL Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in extracting a complete human genome from a thousands-of-years old "chewing gum."
grAn9 TIL LBJ had two dogs die at the White House: Her swallowed a stone, and Him was hit by a car.