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TIL only one of the 40,000 American soldiers who deserted during World War II was punished by execution

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R59Pj TIL 14th century conqueror Timur or Tamerlane's body was exhumed in 1941 by Soviet anthropologist for examination. The casket had the inscription "Whomsoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I." Three days later, Germany invaded Soviet Union.
KY9ZR TIL there are 78,000 people in the "Unorganized Borough" of Alaska, which has an area of 323,440 sq mi (still larger than Texas the second biggest state). This is equivalent in population to Chelan County, Washington, or one-twentieth of Manhattan, less than one square mile.
rpvW TIL that the alternative history novel “The Man in the High Castle” features a “novel within a novel”. While the actual book is about Nazis winning WWII, the in-book novel is about an alternate universe in which the Nazis lose the war.
V7a0 TIL a man in New Mexico threw a live mouse into a fire. The fiery rodent then ran back into his home, which burned down.
oBjmK TIL in 1986, the band Genesis and four out of the five associate members as solo artists, had songs in the Billboard Top 40 in the same calendar year