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TIL: USA Has Been At War 223 Out of 240 Years – Since 1776 i.e. USA has been at peace for in total 17 years since it’s birth.

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rNnpo TIL the largest battle of the American Revolution was not fought in the American colonies or by American revolutionaries. It was the Great Siege of Gibraltar, in which Spain unsuccessfully tried to take advantage of the war overseas to reclaim Gibraltar from Britain.
rN4eo TIL about the Passage du Gois, a road in France that's flooded out twice a day by the high tide.
0BJR TIL that when 16 year old John Paul Getty III was kidnapped in 1973, his billionaire grandfather refused to pay $17 million ransom. After the kidnappers mailed Getty’s ear to a newspaper, his grandfather only agreed to pay $2.2 million because that was the maximum amount that was tax deductible.
m1D8E TIL that there were thousands of indigenous peoples who allied with and fought alongside the conquistadors during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
QNKwd TIL that the name "Bullet Train" refers specifically to the Japanese Shinkansen system and isn't just a nickname for any highspeed train with a bullet shaped nose