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TIL the US had nuclear-armed suicide commandos called Green Light Teams

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69ADZ TIL Pigeons use Earth's magnetic field to navigate. A small spot on their beak contains magnetite which acts as a tiny GPS unit for the homing pigeon by giving it information about its position relative to Earth's poles.
Y7DZP TIL that the band Phish hosted 80,000 people, the largest on earth to usher in the new millennium, for New Years 2000 at the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation in Florida
Ogy7 TIL the Aztecs once fed 200K people in inarable swampy land by creating floating gardens they farmed extensively
m9Rv TIL the Pan-American Highway doesn’t actually connect North America and South America, there is a 100 mile gap of swampland and forest between Panama and Colombia with no roads, inhabited by drug runners
e0r0n TIL in Ancient Roman had a rather revealing "bikinis" that are very similar to the ones we use nowadays.