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TIL there are approximately the same number of calories in a pound of spinach as there are in two Oreos.

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6jwm TIL in the year 774, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded a “red crucifix” in the sky. Tree rings dated from that year all over the world show a spike in Carbon-14 levels. It is believed that the event was caused by a very strong solar flare, perhaps the strongest ever known
1aek4 TIL that in 1688 false reports of Irish soldiers burning and massacring English towns prompted a mass panic, with thousands of people arming themselves and preparing to resist non-existent groups of marauding Irishmen.
Z84mR TIL about Air New Zealand flight 901, which provided sightseeing flyovers of Antarctica until it crashed into the side of Mount Erebus in November 1979. Most of the wreckage is still there, and can periodically be seen during warmer weather.
wLp5o TIL that the US conducted experiments on their own troops by race back in WW2
Lv8m TIL a American dentist secretly drilled “Remember Pearl Harbor” in morse code, into the dentures of captured Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo.