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TIL that the United States bombed Vietnam with more than double the bomb tonnage dropped by every single country in all of WW2.

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OOWX TIL that Google has been using money-shifting strategies known to lawyers as the “Double Irish” and the “Dutch Sandwich” to help reduce its tax rate down to 2.4 percent.
P7lg TIL the polish mathematicians were the first to break the enigma code. Not the British.
pY61e TIL that Jesse Owens became lifelong friends with his German long jump opponent during the famous 1936 Berlin Olympics
ADV9B TIL: In May of 2012, a U.S. nuclear sub was damaged beyond repair by fire. Investigators eventually discovered that a sailor had set the fire to "get out of work early." He was sentenced to 17 years in prison and ordered to pay $400 million to replace the sub.
MaYV TIL flour tortillas were invented by a Jewish sect living in Mexico (then a colony of New Spain) who considered corn to be non-kosher.