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TIL of St Clair’s Defeat of 1791, when British armed Native Americans inflicted one of the worst ever defeats on the US Military.

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m1Zdx TIL of a Kugelblitz a theoretical astrophysical object predicted by general relativity. It is a concentration of heat, light or radiation so intense that its energy forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped. The concentration of energy can warp spacetime so much that it creates a black hole
4R9N TIL that in 1945 a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another atomic blast.
5ln9 TIL if each atom of air you inhaled were a grain of sand, every breath you took would cover the entire United States to the depth of an eight-story building.
X07aR TIL of Lincoln's 4 children, only one outlived them
LkRyP TIL about Jerome Kerviel who was fined $6.7 billion for unauthorized stock trading, making him the most indebted man in the world