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TIL In World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day. Americans got 22.

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p8pg4 TIL that Stalin's poorly planned canal projects in the Amu Darya river and Syr Darya river to divert water to cotton fields was one of the major causes of drying of Aral Sea and completely destroying ecosystem around it which was the 4th largest lake at the time.
GAVRg TIL Menthol cough drops may cause rebound coughing
Br1Zk TIL the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is where one stumbles upon some obscure piece of information—often an unfamiliar word or name—and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly.
kOgxE TIL The anarchist thinker Peter Kropotkin was a military officer turned geologist. In 1871 Kropotkin explored the glacial deposits of Finland and Sweden. In 1873, he published a map and paper in which he showed that the existing maps entirely misrepresented the physical features of Asia.
WkgkA TIL Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the German general who told Hitler to go fuck himself