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TIL that there is a McDonalds-themed Black Sabbath tribute band called "Mac Sabbath".

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loyw5 TIL during the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese military had a sophisticated air force and anti-air defense system which destroyed 10,000 US aircraft (including 3,744 planes and 5,607 helicopters) and 1,018 South Vietnamese aircraft. The North Vietnamese only lost 170 aircraft.
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jND7v TIL that Stalin jailed the very person who helped him confirm Hitler's Death.
v8oD TIL That a Japanese soldier was stranded on a island for 30 years, not knowing that the second world war had ended for 30 years. His commander came to the island to personally dismiss him in 1974.
VB584 TIL that masturbation was a capital crime in the Puritan colony of New Haven, Connecticut