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TIL Gurkha single handedly killed 30 Taliban insurgents fighting them off with a machine gun, rifle, grenades, a machine gun tripod and a sandbag.

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5YG0R TIL that the squiggly line, cobweb looking shadows you in your vision are called eye floaters
adGJ TIL many Iraqis believed that the Oakleys worn by American soldiers gave them X-ray vision, to see through Iraqi women’s clothes.
KYvOG TIL: That in 1956 the canals in Venice, Italy were drained and cleaned.
rDAo TIL that people born on the island of Bali, Indonesia are traditionally given one of four names based on their birth order within the family. The first child is called ‘oldest’, the second 'middle’, etc. The cycle repeats itself after the fourth, where the fifth child is called 'oldest again’.
JYDkV TIL the top of the giant redwood forest were thought to be a lifeless wasteland. But explorers recently discover their canopy contains an entire ecosystem. A lake of fern, top soil a meter deep in its branches, trees and other plants, and crustaceans that only live in water all live up there.