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TIL during World War II, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with Bubonic Plague

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wPVE TIL that a german author wrote a bestselling book about Hitler waking up in 2011 and trying to re-establish the third Reich
gxoX TIL, Russian Scientists discovered seeds 124 feet below permafros that an “Ice Age Squirrel” had buried, the seeds dated back 32,000 years old. They were successfully germinated and a year later created their own seeds.
69En8 TIL - The City of London is a district of approx. 1sq mile that is distinct from "Greater London" and has a population of approx. 9500 people however, over 500k people are employed there.
69Dm TIL that white tea, green tea, and black tea are all the same plant, just having undergone different processing
VBWD8 TIL of The Kardashev scale: A 1-4 scale method of ranking planetary civilizations based on how technologically advanced they are. On the scale, humans are currently at mere 0.73