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TIL Mao Zedong killed 4.5x more people than Hitler did

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9wn1m TIL The opening animated credits for the 1964 TV show Bewitched were actually created by the Hanna Barbera studios, the animated Samantha and Darrin were later used in a Season 6 Episode of the Flintstones called Samantha.
VMEem The atomic clocks that mark official time lose the equivalent of just 1 second every 200 million years. But metrologists are not satisfied.
x6aXD TIL that on 15th August 1939, two weeks before the outbreak of Ww2, the luftwaffe lost 13 Ju-87 Stuka in a minute. The incident is know as "Nuehammer Stuka Disaster".
9Gnp TIL that soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor receive a number of additional benefits, including a pension of $1,300 beyond any other retirement pay, space-available air travel on military transport for their entire lives, and admission to military academies for their children.
wbdo TIL Albatrosses are so adapted to their oceanic existence that they spend the first six or more years of their long lives (which last upwards of 50 years) without ever touching land.