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TIL since 1991 Russia has been involved in 12 wars

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VBN98 TIL that each year the 25 best high school students of Italy get invited to the president's palace in Rome to be personally awarded a medal by the president of Italy for their good grades
rRQMo TIL that when practicing for the D-Day landings in "Exercise Tiger" at least 749 Americans were killed by friendly fire and a "wolf pack" of 6 German E-boats who stumbled on the LST ships in the dark. D-Day was nearly called off because 10 officers who knew the exact plans went missing.
Z8Ovv TIL patients were deliberately infected with malaria to produce intense fevers to treat incurable late stage syphilis. The inventor of this method won a Nobel prize for this work in 1927
4Nnw TIL the first documented case of cancer dates back to Ancient Egypt, in 1500 B.C.
kNy4 TIL in 1962, two American geologists found that a large rock face above a Peruvian town could collapse during an earthquake. The Peruvian government ordered the two to retract their work or face prison. Eight years later, an earthquake collapsed the rock face, killing 20,000 of the town’s residents.