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TIL in 1939 Russian minister Vyacheslav Molotov claimed bombing missions over Finland as humanitarian food deliveries for their starvng neighbours. The Finns dubbed them "Molotov bread baskets". When the firebomb was developed, the Finns called it "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with the food"

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m1nAx TIL that a crocodile reached 39 feet in length. Sarcosuchus (nicknamed "SuperCroc") had a jaw so powerful that it could crush bone, which the animal used to hunt dinosaurs and other prey much larger than itself. SuperCroc weighed 8 tons, equal to two adult elephants, but went extinct with dinosaurs.
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