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TIL Guinness was not suitable for vegetarians until 2018

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pW8 TIL that one of the Green Lanterns is a planet… a sentient planet.
GY1QN TIL a German Professor during WW1 recorded the voice of many Indian PoWs, a unique project at a PoW camp outside Berlin. In Tamil and Punjabi, Bengali, Urdu and more, these men speak and sing of home. Now available in the Humbolt archives.
9ww67 TIL that 15 mines detonated at the Battle of Messines on 7th June 1917 created what is still one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in human history. The blast created a 12-metre deep crater and was reportedly heard as far away as Dublin.
Vgep TIL that 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. lack the math competency expected of an 8th grader
4brJ TIL that between 1924 and 1925, 5.26% of the US population or 6 million people were members of the KKK.