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TIL: That you can train honeybees to detect explosives
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TIL aid expert David Rieff argues that Live Aid donations helped fund a brutal resettlement programme that may have killed up to 100,000. Ethiopia remains one of Africa's poorest countries, and the whole of sub-Saharan Africa is worse off today than it was after Live Aid.
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TIL the stadion, formerly also anglicized as stade, was an ancient Greek unit of length, based on the circumference of a typical sports stadium of the time; showing how we're not the first to measure some things in football fields.
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TIL although Thundercats looks like an anime, it's an American original cartoon. The creator had a Japanese animation studio do all the animation, while it was produced, written, and voice acted all in America.
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TIL Rick and Morty only exists because Bill Cosby’s lawyers sent a cease and desist to Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon in 2005 over an internet series called ‘House of Cosbys’.
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TIL that during the Cold War, the U.S. developed the Davy Crockett, a recoilless rifle that fired one of the smallest nuclear warheads ever made.