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TIL The Battle of Karánsebes which was a friendly fire incident that killed over 150 people and left 1200 wounded. It started as a dispute over Schnapps.

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Z8rko TIL about the mysterious worldwide epidemic of Encephalitis lethargica. The disease attacks the brain, leaving some victims in a statue-like condition, speechless and motionless. Between 1915 and 1926, 500,000 dead or incapacitated from it. It disappeared as mysteriously as it came in to the world.
VBJXp TIL: The entire internet weighs as little as a strawberry! Meaning I could hold the world wide web in my hand!
wMOP TIL of an accountant who murdered his client, a $5 million lottery winner, because he was pushed over the edge by her continued wasteful spending
m1LDR TIL A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life.
5dWQ TIL that ‘The Wire’ creator David Simon has said he will make a season six of the series if the US agrees to end the war on drugs.