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TIL there are over 200 "wind phones" in the US where grieving people can 'talk' to relatives - they feature an old-fashioned phone booth with a phone with a dial on it, and were first popularized in Japan after the Fukushima tsunami

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rnZW TIL During the Battle of Stalingrad, German soldiers suffered more casualties attempting to take 1 apartment building (Pavlov’s House) then they did taking the city of Paris.
vE1L TIL that the longest prison sentence ever requested was 384,912 years of jail, against a 22 years old postman accused of failing to deliver 42,768 letters
NXgMN TIL of the 21 demands. Demands made during WW1 from Japan to China which effectively puppets it. China leaked it to the US and UK who pressured successfully for Japan to drop the most extreme demand.
EoZx TIL: The American Lung Association states that,“In fact, when equal amounts of marijuana and tobacco are smoked, marijuana deposits four times as much tar into the lungs. This is because marijuana joints are un-filtered and often more deeply inhaled than cigarettes.”
epKED TIL that the condor cluster is a U.S. army supercomputer made up of 1760 PlayStation 3s from 2010