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TIL of Sergeant Dipprasad Pun, a Gurkha soldier who single-handedly held his post against dozens of oncoming Taliban; after firing 250 machine gun rounds, 180 SA80 rounds, throwing 12 grenades and one claymore mine, 30 Taliban lay dead around him.

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R0e9 TIL an intact steamboat from 1856 was excavated in 1988 under 45 feet of dirt in a farmers field. Thousands of artifacts were excavated and preserved so well that some of the food was still edible.
lRBa TIL: while exploring the newly discovered Yellowstone, Truman Everts got separated from the group. His horse then ran away with supplies, he fell on his campfire, fell hip deep into a geyser, and was finally found crawling months later with frostbite weighing a mere 55 lbs.
4ky66 TIL when Tom and Jerry's "The Two Mouseketeers" (1952) featured a guillotine execution scene, it wasn't just historical fiction - France was still actively using the guillotine for executions until 1977, with the last execution being Hamida Djandoubi.
PYOPg TIL we perceive things as cute because of certain child-like traits that trigger a nurturing instinct. These traits include head-to-body ratio, eye and ear placement, smaller mouths, and rounder soft bodies.
b9DXE TIL that after executing over 1,000 Ukrainian intellectuals between October 27 and November 3, 1937, Soviet executioner Mikhail Metveyev was given a commemorative gift of a record player/radio and a set of records, for his "selfless work in the struggle against counter-revolution".