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TIL World War II’s Strangest Battle: When Americans and Germans Fought Together

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07j5 TIL That through a series of experiments in the Polytechnic Institute of New York, a robotic fish ended up becoming the leader of a school of live fish.
W71jY TIL the unique, vibrant shade of blue known as "Voronet blue" used for paintings at the Voronet Monastery (Sistine Chapel of the East), Romania, contains a paint substance still unknown today. In 1488 builder Stephen the Great ("the athlete of Christ") finished the monastery in 3 mths, 3 wks, 3 days
j6Gbv TIL in order to inform shoppers in Mexico about poor nutritional content in prepackaged foods, the law states that packages containing foods with excess levels of calories, sugars, saturated fat, or containing caffeine or sweeteners must be labeled with large octagonal warnings exposing these facts.
pRXQ TIL John Adams once wrote “one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”
Z8nDp TIL that the 1918 influenza pandemic killed more people of India than WWI killed globally.