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TIL The Navajo Nation Reservation is bigger than the state of West Virginia by almost 2 million acres

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yVY9e TIL that people who have ears that get raw, sore peeling skin when exposed to cold or some soaps/shampoos have "ear eczema", a common condition.
wL10J TIL about Shigeru Yokosawa, a sixty-year-old hospital admin who sacrificed his life by, in the face of an approaching tsunami, rushing to retrieve the hospital's satellite phone. The phone he saved became his colleagues' only lifeline to the outside world after the disaster.
N7No1 TIL of Basenji dogs, a dog breed that doesn't bark.
a8ggM TIL over 18 million Chinese were killed in World War 2, then over 5 million in the resumed Chinese Civil War, then over 50 million from executions and starvation over the next 20 years after the communists took over.
LoB9 TIL, Australia has an owl so large it hunts and eats possums, called the Powerful Owl.