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TIL The U.S. in 1899-1902 used Concentration camps, water cure and the destruction of crops to starve the Filipino population into submission costing up to 600.000 civilian deaths.

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e0AlE TIL The founder of Mormonism was shot several times, fell out of a window, died, and proceeded to be shot more.
LQXap TIL the Saturn V rocket, which first took humans to the Moon, weighed just under three million kilogrammes before launch, or roughly the weight of 400 elephants. More than 90% of this weight was fuel alone, leaving a payload of just 43,000 kilogrammes to reach the Moon's orbit.
6EYo7 TIL, The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle and its paranormal explanations
Lkg7v TIL Prof John Lorber discovered a maths genius who had almost no brain due to a condition known as hydrocephalus. He went on to discover many other people with 90% of their brains missing that had normal to high IQs
69LXQ TIL that Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse actually had a full conversation before, in this movie from 1992. 🤯🤯