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TIL that many critics and audience members felt that the horrific wounds inflicted by the M2 .50-cal. heavy machine gun in Rambo (2008) were so gory that it was unrealistic. However, Afghanistan veterans who had used the M2 noted that the wounds were quite accurate, and if anything were toned down

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gMmAy TIL that back when dinosaurs existed, there used to be volcanoes that were erupting on the moon.
rRrPo TIL it costs just 55¢ to mail a letter to Little Diomede in the Bearing Strait (2 miles from Russia), the USPS’s costliest route at $300,000 per year. The 119 resident Eskimos rely on the USPS subsidizing the cost of the weekly helicopter runs delivering food and medication.
awN4L TIL The Anthropocene is the newest Epoch and is defined by human impact on the geologic record. The two major proposed markers for the Epoch are nuclear fallout/products and chicken bones. Chickens were domesticated 8ka but the modern broiler is easily distinguished in modern human settlements.
NXYE1 TIL: That in 2014, a doctor in Wales was handed a suspended sentence for faking Viagra prescriptions because he said he was too embarrassed to see his GP. Staff became suspicious because the doctor worked in a trauma and orthopaedic unit, where patients would not normally need drugs for impotence.
0vb5 TIL Töregene Khatun, daughter-in-law to Genghis Khan, ruled the Mongol Empire for 5 years at the height of its power and was arguably the most powerful woman in the history of the world