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Today I Learned Potato blight that sparked Great Famine appeared in US two years before

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D1E6Y TIL - Battle of Machias was an early naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War a small town militia captured an armed sloop and two merchant ships. Two years later the British tried it again with 1,000 men but were beaten off.
Kv6R TIL: An unfortunate Korean was forced to fight for the Japanese, captured by the Russians and forced to fight on the Eastern Front where he was captured again by the Germans and forced to fight on the Western front where he was finally captured by the American Army.
XEw1P TIL that during the Vietnam War, America made a recording that has terrifying sounds, then played those sounds in the jungle at night.
5YnJR TIL while only being roughly the size of North Carolina, the island of Java sustains a population of 141 million. Comparatively the population of Japan is 145.9 million and three times the size in area.
9mRM TIL there is a mineral named Cummingtonite. Its chemical composition is (Mg,Fe2+)2(Mg,Fe2+)5Si8O22(OH)2. It was named after Cummington, Massachusetts, where it was discovered in 1824.