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TIL that Finke River in Australia is the oldest river in the world.

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9J1B TIL that during the Iraq war in 2003, the U.S. Military planned to attach chickens atop Hum-Vees in order to detect chemical weapons. The project was named, Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken (KFC). However, the project failed when 41 of the 43 chickens died within a week of their arrival.
mbZM TIL in 2006 a schoolboy in England realeased a balloon with a note, it traveled 240kms, landing in then Prime Minister Tony Blair’s holiday home garden, who sent it back with a letter.
M7BQV TIL about Operation Condor - an American and French funded right-wing terror operation that resulted in coups against and assassination and torture of left-wing sympathizers in South America between 1975 to 1983
QMl9 TIL: Being awarded with one of the five orders of knighthood by the pope, allows you to enter the Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome by horse
0xNN TIL that the Molai Forest in India (1,360 acres) was planted by a single man, over the span of 30 years. It is now home to Bengal tigers, Indian rhinoceroses and the occasional herd of elephants.