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TIL an 18-inch pizza has more pizza than two 12-inch pizzas

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P1WxJ TIL in 1969, on Christmas Eve, the president of Equatorial Guinea Francisco Macias Nguema had 150 suspected dissidents executed in the national football stadium in Malabo with the executioners dressed as Santa Claus, while the amplifiers played Mary Hopkin's song "Those Were the Days".
GY787 TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart, a vetern of four wars. He survived seperate instances of being shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a POW camp; and tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them.
4XgxN TIL Brains of Transgender people more closely resemble brains of the sex they align with.
6gpZ TIL that for a brief time, the US Playing Card Company released a 65 card deck that included a fifth suit, a Green Eagle, that was ranked higher than spades.
VPvQ TIL that during the Korean War, the U.S Military ran out of mortar rounds and as a result accidentally ordered thousands of crates of ‘Tootsie Rolls’ candy. This is because the U.S Army used 'Tootsie Roll’ as a slang code for mortar shells.