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TIL Lyudmila Pavlyuchenko is regarded as the most successful female sniper in history, credited with 309 kills during WWII

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rXY4 TIL there are 350 million Chinese smokers, higher than the population of the United States, and 60% of all male physicians smoke. Cigarette sales generate 7-10% of the government’s revenue.
vLkK TIL of Tetris Syndrome, which is when you play a game too long and you start to dream about it, and hallucinate about it on the edges of your vision.
QNLVX TIL Ulysses S. Grant personally disliked Napoleon, Napoleon III (he disliked him the most), and the Bonaparte family in general
x6XYk TIL despite looking really similar, toads don't hop for mobility like frogs, they walk to cover greater distances
OWR6 TIL Up until the 1970s the US Government used forced sterilization on Native American women