Random facts thread

[Alexander Ostmann]

In the entire Malayan campaign, the British forces surrendered their 130,000-man force to the Japanese. The Japanese, with a force less than half of that and suffering only 3,500 dead, made this one of the most humiliating military defeats of WWII.

 

[Floyd]

If you overpopulate an island it will tip over and capsize...
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And a fun fact:

There is no tipping in Iceland.