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TIL that Australia had an “emu war” in which machine guns and artillery was used.

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XEmbk TIL that studies have shown that organic food is worse for the environment than non-organic, and is unsustainable due to its higher land use requirements
o058 TIL Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer scientist because her mom didn’t want her ending up a sex fiend like her father.
yQBmJ TIL that there’s a roundabout in Mashpee, MA that locals call the “Fruit Loop” because there are banana peels thrown in the middle just about every day.
OowYL TIL Cosmic rays can trigger bitflips (Soft Errors) in computers, glitching them in disastrous ways.
yQLrp TIL that The Hunt for Red October (1990), Patriot Games (1992), and The Sum of All Fears (2002) are all apart of the same film series, the most recent of which was Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) starring Chris Pine.