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TIL Giant squids have a donut shaped brain so their esophagus can run through the middle. If they try to swallow too large of a bite of food they can receive serious brain damage.

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16ZJr TIL in 1961 US came very close to nuking itself. A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3–4-megaton nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. One of the bombs came close to detonating, with three of the four required triggering mechanisms having activated.
ygv8 TIL that “The Legend of Bagger Vance”, a movie about a golf game, is actually a modern-day rendition of the Bhagavad Gita, an ancient sacred Hindu text.
64pm TIL that when Charles Whitman began his shooting rampage at U Texas in 1966, a lot of locals grabbed their rifles and started shooting back. They kept him pinned down until the police could sneak up the tower and kill him.
nelLr TIL in 1984, a group of cannabis growers in Northern California sued the federal government, alleging they had been subject to illegal surveillance by U2 spy planes.
loN8B TIL China's mass surveillance system, the largest and most intricate in the world, is literally called Skynet.