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TIL The USA dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. Thats about 3 bombs every hour for 24 hours a day…

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awm7y TIL about the Gaesatae, a group of Gaulish mercenaries hired to fight the Romans in 225 BC. The Gaesatae fought naked to intimidate their foes, but their small shields offered little protection against Roman javelins, and they were driven back.
XEr76 TIL the "Pac-Man defense" is when a company being bought out in a hostile takeover counterattacks by trying to buy out the aggressor.
grvOL TIL that Charles Goodell, father of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, was chosen to fill Robert F. Kennedy's Senate seat after his assassination.
LkkAZ The best thing: You don’t need to own a bike.
x6oDo TIL Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show) voiced Nigel Thornberry in Nickelodeon’s The Wild Thornberries