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TIL Phil Collins can beatbox

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4X5WX TIL That during the Vietnam War, the American navy laid thousands of sea mines in the waters off North Vietnam. In August of 1972 a solar storm caused 4,000 of them to spontaneously explode in just a few weeks.
XQQr TIL, fungi has been found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, but it is not known if fungus is a cause or consequence of the disease.
m1XKY TIL there are over 400 books in the Warhammer 40K literary universe
e0xM4 TIL of May Bradford, a Red Cross volunteer during WWI who wrote over 25,000 letters and notes, an average of 12 a day, for wounded soldiers who were too ill or too uneducated to write to their family. She also sat with the injured and dying and considered herself to be a surrogate mother to them.
1Lrr TIL The most eaten fruit of the world is not an Apple nor a Banana, in fact, the most eaten fruit in the world is the Mango. It outsells Apples by 10 to 1, and Bananas by 3 to 1.