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TIL Operation BLACKCOCK was a codename selected for an operation to clear German troops from the Roer Triangle during World War II.

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N7BZb TIL that a party boat carrying about sixty men and women once capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed over to one side of the boat when the boat passed a nude beach.
yQ79a TIL about Homo Syntheticus, the idea that we will soon take control of evolution away from nature and replace it with cybernetics & genetic engineering.
OoOG4 TIL vulpinic acid is poisonous to all meat-eaters but not to mice and rabbits
0eaA TIL Ontario, Canada is named after the lake. Not the other way around.
x6oEb TIL the oldest company in the world is a Japanese construction company. It has been in continuous operation for 1,444 years