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TIL, the U.S is considered by many military experts to be entirely un-invadable due to country's large size, infrastructure, diverse geography and climate

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neyZW TIL the inside of WW2 Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go tank was lined with asbestos
9YB1Q TIL there are up to 7,000 different languages spoken around the world today. More than half of the world's languages have no written form. It is estimated that 75% of the world’s population does not speak English.
DyLg TIL that comic book characters come back to life after dying so often that they are aware of the likely resurrections. Professor X said “in mutant heaven there are no pearly gates, but instead revolving doors.” After one X-Man died, his daughter refused to mourn him because he’d be alive again.
E1RR0 TIL that based on the books, Hannibal Lecter has six fingers on his left hand.
0wJR5 TIL the first close up photo from Mars was taking so long to print that impatient scientists taped the raw data to the wall and colored over it with pastel crayon manually assigning color and value to the binary code.