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TIL that 8 out of every 10 German troops killed in World War II died fighting the Soviets

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695MX TIL An independent Northern counterfeiter named Samuel C. Upham made so much fake Southern money during the American Civil War that experts think it made up around 1-3% of the total currency supply of the Confederacy.
mxZny TIL of Chief Buffalo Hump. His Nʉmʉ tekwapu (Comanche) name, properly transliterated, was Po-cha-na-quar-hip which meant "erection that won't go down".
KOpk6 TIL There are close to 15,000 farms growing Christmas Trees in the U.S., and over 100,000 people are employed full or part-time in the industry.
kOe14 TIL J.K. Simmons was (and still is) the voice of the yellow M&M, and Billy West is the voice of the red M&M
6oBY TIL that the British Royal Navy (at substantial cost) established a fleet of ships known as the ‘West Africa Squadron’ which would patrol the west coast of Africa, capturing slave ships. This fleet is estimated to have captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 African slaves between 1808 & 1860.