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TIL the killer of Malcom X is still alive and out of prison.
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TIL Ogbunigwe was a family of highly effective explosive weapons invented by the former African country of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War. They were able to kill 4,000 out of 6,000 soldiers in a single attack
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TIL While traveling to the Tehran Conference in 1943 on the USS Iowa, FDR’s ship was almost torpedoed by the escorting destroyer USS William D Porter. The incident was caused when one of the destroyer’s crew members failed to remove the primer of the torpedo while doing a training exercise.
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TIL of the 'raising of Chicago'. In the mid-1850s Chicago buildings were raised multiple feet to improve drainage and reduce disease outbreaks
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TIL Europeans and (USA and UK) refer to a billion differently. Europe considers it a million millions, whilst the others consider is a thousand millions. Canadians them use either, depending what language they're speaking.
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TIL: To get a warm drink can cold takes20-25 minutes in a freezer. If you put it in a bucket of ice, that would halve that time. If you put water in that ice, it'd be cold (+- 5c) enough to drink in about 4-6 minutes, if you put salt in that water, you'd reduce the chill time to just over 2 minutes.