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TIL about the Paraguayan War in which 90% of males in the country died as well as over half the general population.

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d8gbZ TIL Iwao Takamoto, the Japanese-American animator and designer behind cartoons such as Scooby-Doo, Penelope Pitstop and several Disney characters, learned his skills as a teenage prisoner in the Manzanar internment camp, which held over 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
KOrxE TIL from 1996-2000, a group of students at MIT made and wrote multiple papers about a robotic flamingo. Dubbed the "Spring Flamingo", it was made to teach them complex robotics and show how feet and actuated ankles helped bipedal walking
X05oE TIL Michelangelo wrote over 300 poems
p8AWZ TIL Researchers suggest that the ancient Chinese has been brewing beer since 7000 BC. It is believed that the ingredient used for the ancient Chinese beer were grapes, honey, hawthorns, and rice
7ovP TIL Ed Sheeran Sheeran sang over the phone for a 15-year-old fan dying from complications of cystic fibrosis, who died in her sleep minutes later.