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TIL: A six year old boy is the youngest soldier of World War 2.

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x6lJ0 TIL during the Falklands War, the UK considered landing SAS troops in Hercules aircraft directly on the runway of Rio Grande airbase with the aim of destroying Argentina's Super Étendard strike fighters and their anti-ship missiles. The operation also intended to kill the pilots in their quarters.
VRgm TIL an uncontacted tribe still inhabits an island in the Indian Ocean, living as simple hunter-gatherers. They are vigorously hostile to outsiders, and have not yet developed early technologies such as agriculture or writing.
W7v7Y TIL Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa designed Kazakhstan's new capital city of Astana with enormous pavilion space, hotels, and art venues. Even though the city has glitzy architecture and skyscrapers, the average resident only makes $450 a month
yQpLX TIL about negativity bias: negative things have a greater impact on your psychological state than positive things, and your amount of negativity bias impacts your perceptions and preferences.
ZpaGQ TIL Cambridge university didn't grant degrees to women till 1948 and remained the only university to do so by that time.