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TIL that more people died on the last day of WWI than on D-Day, despite commanders knowing that the war was essentially over.

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XJlk TIL the international reactions and events around the US invasion of Grenada were strikingly similar to the Russian invasion of Crimea.
1LgV TIL forgotten smallpox vials were found in a cardboard box in Maryland in 2014, over 30 years after its eradication
b6X4a TIL that the first instance of Panda Diplomacy was by Madame Chiang, who arranged for pandas to be sent to San Francisco as a dramatic way of saying thank you. The pandas received attention, but not as much as hoped, because on their way to the US, Pearl Harbor had been bombed.