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TIL that Laos is the most heavily bombed nation in history

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9wpBQ TIL the USS Colorado was the only Pacific Fleet battleship not at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese surprise attack. She subsequently defended the Golden Gate Bridge, survived a kamikaze attack at Leyte Gulf and returned to San Francisco at war's end.
ANg74 TIL of Elizabeth Jennings Graham, an African-American woman who, in 1854, successfully sued NYC's Third Avenue Railway for denying her a seat on horsecar helping to lead to the desegregation of the city’s public transportation
BO4K TIL That when men don’t masturbate for 7 days their testosterone levels increase by 45.7%
WNDX TIL a man called “Arthur Gehrke” hibernated from november to april every year for 25 years.
p8ljA TIL there's a modern university library with see through floors