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TIL Russia is opening a “Military Disneyland” that will allow guests to shoot military grade weapons and try out various military simulators.

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R4Wl TIL a woman on vacation heard a voice in her head telling her to return home immediately. The voices gave her an address to a hospital’s brain scan department. She found she had a brain tumor. On having it operated on, the voices told her they were happy to help her and “good bye”.
BgWVK TIL The Marx Brothers radio show Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel about an unscrupulous lawyer was orginally called Beagle, Shyster, and Beagle. The title changed after Morris Beagle sued because he was receiving prank phone calls. In show, Groucho's character changed his name because he divorced.
9Yjbp TIL a Japanese man noticed food disappearing in his fridge so he set up a security camera and found out there was a homeless woman living in the top compartment of his closet and been there for more than a year.
K5NQ TIL That in Australia there is an annual event building highly detailed suits of armor, weapons, vehicles and animals out of cardboard. They then have a massive battle destroying everything. They call it Boxwars.
VMaLD TIL about Adolph Metzger, a bugler who used his instrument as a weapon until it was battered shapeless in the Fetterman Fight. Metzger was the only soldier whose dead body was not mutilated. Instead the Indians covered him with a buffalo hide. His dented bugle is now displayed in a Wyoming museum.