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TIL Taser is an acronym for “Thomas A. Swift’s electric rifle”

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doW8 TIL a McDonald’s Caesar Salad has more calories, fat and salt than a Double Big Mac burger
5YEBr TIL that as part of their "armed neutrality" policy, Switzerland strongly considered building nuclear weapons and acquired 10 tons of uranium in the early 1960s, with plans to make up to 100 bombs
kJYbg TIL that Henry Gunther was the last soldier to die in World War I. The war ended at 11 AM and Gunther was killed at 10:59 AM while charging a German machine gun
xVoP7 TIL that Polish intelligence officer Witold Pilecki volunteered for a resistance operation to be imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to gather intelligence about the camp. He organized a resistance movement in the camp, sent information to the Allies about what was happening there, and escaped in 1943.
ldLr TIL the world’s largest pyramid is hidden under a mountain in Mexico and has a base four times larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza.