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TIL A Million People in China Live in Underground Nuclear Bunkers

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E1GVx TIL during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, the Hungarian Army, officially fighting on the German side, secretly assisted the Polish resistance, launching "ambushes" on the Poles and then "retreating" immediately, leaving behind massive amounts of weapons and supplies for the Poles to "capture."
BrwlW TIL that term "laser" originated as an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation".
Y7DZP TIL that the band Phish hosted 80,000 people, the largest on earth to usher in the new millennium, for New Years 2000 at the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation in Florida
W7yYN TIL: It is completely legal, to drop any item from an aircraft as long as the end result does not harm person or property.
oBo1K TIL of the Magic Roundabout, the “most complex intersection” in the world.