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TIL that in 1985 the US’s Delta force and Seal Team Six were surrounded (guns drawn) by the Italian Carabinieri after the US forced an airliner to land at an Italian NATO base. This stemmed from the hijacking of an Italian cruise ship and the killing of an American by members of the PLO days earlier

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X0Jlj TIL before the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was completely constructed, there were concerns among the public that its high-energy experiments would lead to the formation of micro black holes or strangelets, a dark-matter-like particle that can convert all matter it touches into strange matter.
oBZBW TIL NASA had detailed plans to get humans to Mars by as early as 1981, but the mission didn't get enough support from the Nixon administration and was shelved.
Lk6aV TIL that Bob Bergen, the actor who presently voices Porky Pig, has immense job security due to how difficult it is to nail the pig’s speech mannerisms. He had to study Mel Blanc’s speech patterns intensely to get the character just right.
b6eG9 TIL salix herbacea - The dwarf willow is one of the smallest woody plants in the world. It typically grows to only 1–6 centimetres (1⁄2–2+1⁄2 inches) in height
0wRWv TIL its revealed in Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc. the reason Scooby can talk is due to being a descendant of Anunnaki. Anunnaki are spirits that inhabit bodies of animals and are responsible for China’s Monkey King and some Egyptian Gods. Their descendants are talking animals and Scooby is one of them.