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TIL the American Civil War began in a man’s front yard and ended about 120 miles away in his new home’s front parlor (he moved to escape the war).

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5VVnr TIL that in Australia's worst aircraft crash no Australians died. In 1943 the crash of a USAAF B17 Flying Fortress took the lives of 40 US servicemen leaving only one survivor. No other aviation incident in Australia before or since has cost more lives.
GY8v5 TIL in his book, tennis player Novak Djokovic said in 2010 he met with a nutritionist who asked him to hold a piece of bread in his left hand while he pressed down on his right arm. Djokovic claims he was much weaker while holding the bread, citing this as evidence of gluten intolerance.
VBXJQ TIL back in 1945, a physicist at Kodak in Rochester discovered the secret Manhattan project atomic testing 2000 miles away in New Mexico due to straw containing traces of Cerium-141. The straw was sourced from milling plants in Indiana and Iowa that was used to make the film packaging.
dZxd TIL In the infamous 2012 Dehli bus gang-rape case, the victim was not only raped by 6 men, she also had a crooked iron rod forced inside her, rupturing her diaphragm and then had 80% of her intestines removed through her vagina by hand
OG7JR TIL about calques. Calques are loanwords from other languages into English. However, unlike loanwords (ex:restaurant), calques are translated into English. Examples include: potsticker, beer garden, ear worm, and flea market.