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TIL Arthur Conan Doyle Secretly Resented His Sherlock Holmes Character

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awo9y TIL that in the Vietnam War the average number of rounds expended from an M-16 rifle to kill one enemy soldier was 50,000, or $23,000 per kill. In comparison it took a sniper an average of 1.3 rounds, or $0.17 to kill an enemy soldier.
ZG4Q TIL there’s a boiling lake so hot that the centre has never been reached, and therefore the maximum depth and temperature are unknown.
OlyX TIL that Jim Henson created ‘The Dark Crystal’ with the idea that it was unhealthy for children never to be afraid, and wanted to return to the fantasy genre’s darker roots as in Hans Christian Andersen’s tales.
EZ00 TIL the “fat Buddha” statue is not actually a representation of Gautama Buddha, but is in fact a Chinese deity known as Budai.
OwY4 TIL Elephants are compassionate toward the weak and altruistic toward other species