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TIL Canada's broadcasting regular forbids false and misleading news over Canadian airwaves

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6oXQ TIL Ching Shih was a prostitute, captured by pirates. She then became a pirate herself, commanding a fleet of hundreds of ships and at least 20,000 pirates. She never lost a battle against the Chinese, British, and Portuguese navies before retiring rich after being pardoned.
JYDdv TIL about The Poseidon, or Status-6 Multipurpose System, which is a Russian nuclear-powered underwater drone capable of creating half-kilometer tall tsunamis with a 200 megaton nuclear blast. The Russian Navy has already ordered the construction of 30 such devices.
7r58X TIL the original Dino Crisis 3–developed by Capcom (which created the Resident Evil series)–placed players in fighting time-displaced dinosaurs rampaging across a city due to the time rifts caused by the events in Dino Crisis 2. It was scrapped in favor of a futuristic spaceship version due to 9/11.
5YlaP TIL Harold Ramis took meth right before his military draft physical to get out of the Vietnam war.
xVOB5 TIL that the story of the Chernobyl fireman's wife is deemed impossible by Robert Gale, a UCLA doctor who treated radiation victims