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TIL in WW1 British engineers spent two years digging tunnels under German lines, using them to set off 19 massive explosions simultaneously

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R7a07 TIL that Swadesh list is a list of the 207 most common words in any language, great if you want to start to learn a new language
ayZL TIL of Wong Chin Foo, a 19th century Chinese-American civil rights activist. He launched NYC’s first Chinese newspaper and was active in politics. Wong once challenged Denis Kearney, an anti-Chinese demagogue, to a duel. He offered Kearney “his choice of chopsticks, Irish potatoes or Krupp guns.”
XJgr TIL a coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy
PoKL TIL the small cloth placed over the back of your chair on a plane or a train is called an ‘antimacassar’. They are so named because they were originally used to protect the fabric of the chair from macassar oil; a very famous hair product in the Victorian period.
relo TIL that Sylvester Stallone’s signature slurred speech and snarling look is caused by partial facial paralysis due to a nerve severed by accident at birth