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TIL the theory that Slavs exterminated the Greeks from Greece, meaning modern Greeks are entirely unrelated to Ancient Greeks, is not supported by recent DNA analysis.

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R7Br8 TIL Chad Kroeger once paid a drum technician to stick his dick into an electric fan
loggK TIL of Kingo Nonaka, the "Mexican Samurai" that served in the Mexican Revolution and healed Fransisco Madero during the battle of Casas Grandes
d8O17 TIL about Project Rulison. The US detonated a 40 kiloton nuclear weapon underground in rural Colorado. The goal was to liberate natural gas as part of Operation Plowshare. Unfortunately the gas was too radioactive to use in homes.
8eeLX TIL That Zoroastrianism was the official Religion of the first Persian Empire
Bgbyr TIL: The MEDUSA weapon was created in 2004 and designed to incapacitate crowds of people using auditory pulses. It was purchased by SNC which had contracts with the DoD and Navy. However in 2008 SNC claims the weapon was discontinued as it may cause permanent brain damage.