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TIL that all 6 American flags on the moon have turned completely white.

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KOXpw TIL that Genghis Khan slaughtered the inhabitants of an entire city because they killed his son-in-law. Khans grieving daughter requested that all citizens be decapitated to ensure they were dead and that pyramids be built from their skulls
5aZr TIL that a hungry frog who is surrounded by dead flies on the ground but no flying ones will starve.
lN91 TIL that, in the early 1960s, the CIA coined the term ‘Plausible Deniability’ to describe the withholding of information from senior officials in order to protect them from repercussions in the event that illegal or unpopular activities by the CIA became public knowledge.
awxwy TIL that the Nazi SS organization included volunteers from many ethnicity from Albania, Hungary, India, Sweden, the UK, etc.
OoE67 TIL that during WWI influenza sickened 26% of the US Army—more than one million men—and killed almost 30,000 before they even got to France.