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TIL that during Thirty Years War the Swedish refined waterboarding by using urine and shit

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908X TIL that during the Nigerian Civil War, the two sides agreed to a 48-hour cease fire because Pelé was in town to play an exhibition game, and everyone wanted to be free to watch it without having to worry about the war.
7rbBb TIL about Calixa Lavallée a Canadian who fought for the Union in the American Civil War. He later went on to compose the music for “O Canada” the Canadian national anthem. 33-55,000 Canadians fought for the Union in the Civil War.
d8nvK TIL that, though sunlight takes only 8 minutes to reach from the Sun to our earth, a photon of light can take up to 100,000 years from the core of the Sun to get to the surface !!!
BKex TIL that sloths only poop once a week and it’s called the poo dance
mGrR TIL the amount of matter converted to energy in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was about 700 milligrams, less than one-third the mass of a U.S. dime.