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TIL that the US Navy once retrieved a Soviet supersonic missile that had smashed into millions of pieces, none larger than 6 inches, from the sea floor and managed to reverse-engineer it.

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69enm TIL theres a Texas law that prohibits shooting a buffalo from the second floor of a hotel. This law is very specific, apparently allowing the shooting of buffalo from other locations.
gMd9b TIL of the Hadza people, whose ancestors have occupied the area surrounding the "Cradle of Mankind" for tens of thousands of years. Their oral histories are so ancient that it is possible they reference living alongside earlier extinct hominids such as Homo erectus
BgaWe TIL: On March 27th, 2014, Jimmy Fallon hosted Joan Rivers on The Tonight Show after a 28 year ban held in place from Johnny Carson.
OGkke TIL-On Halloween 1974, 20th Century Fox released 'Phantom of the Paradise', a campy musical comedy lampooning the tropes and conventions of the horror genre. A year later, the same studio released 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show', another campy musical comedy lampooning the same tropes & conventions.
GAQbJ TIL Syracuse, NY has the only upside-down traffic light in the world