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TIL CIA satellites in the 1960s would jettison heat-shielded film canisters with parachutes back to earth, to be retrieved in mid-air by plane

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dD0LZ TIL of the founder of the Majapahit Empire, Raden Wijaya who used a Mongol army that had originally sailed to Indonesia to invade his father's kingdom to defeat rebels that had deposed and killed his father. He would then destroy the weakened Mongol force and become independent
yQ6p TIL; We use obsidian today to make precision surgical tools many times sharper than steel.
m15yE TIL the extremely venomous and painful tentacles of the Portuguese Man-of-War can reach a lenth of up to 165 ft / 50m
7rvPX TIL that in the true story that inspired "A League of Their Own", the Rockford Peaches didn't finish the tournament in second place, but in dead last
R79v6 TIL there was technically a second Norman Conquest of England, in the 13th century King Louis VIII briefly seized control of England and declared himself King before being defeated a few months later. He was never officially crowned.