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TIL The Siege of Stalingrad resulted in more Russian deaths (military and civilian) than the US and Britain sustained (combined) in all of World War II.

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5VQvr TIL that the Toronto Pearson Airport is actually located in Mississauga, contrary to its name.
1a7rO TIL that the story of the Dutch "Tulip Mania" is wildly exaggerated, and was propaganda created by religious Calvinists to promote the notion that "wealth is ungodly"
8aoGP TIL about El Caganer, literally translating to The Pooper, a popular addition to the nativity scene in the Catalonia region of Spain that depicts a peasant pooping in the background.
XElNR TIL that P.T. Barnum's famous elephant Jumbo got his name from the Swahili word for chief. It was the elephant who caused the word "jumbo" to mean something large - not the other way around.
0Qpv TIL of Butler’s café , a butler themed cafe in Tokyo. According to the owner, Japanese women “want a cafe where the waiters [are] male, good-looking, will treat them nice, but most importantly [are] Western.” Butler’s café “is the sole cafe hiring only foreign men as staff.”