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TIL The U.S. Navy's SEAL Team Six was not the sixth SEAL team. At the time there were only two. The name was chosen to confuse the Soviets.

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5R1n TIL nylon gets its name from where it was first developed: New York and London.
5Yo0n TIL the United States ranked 1st in six out of eight categories in a recent Oct 2019 Global Health Security Index measuring health security. It also ranked 2nd (behind the UK) in terms of rapid epidemic response and mitigation.
0wrgR TIL of a man named Garry Hoy who died trying to prove to a bunch of students that the glass wall on the 24tn storey of the building he worked in was unbreakable. He threw himself at the glass wall which didn't break but the window frame gave way and he fell to his death.
D7aV TIL that Rick Moranis was fired from the set of The Breakfast Club after he kept playing the janitor as a goofy Russian character
gV9 TIL that the Malaysian “Assassin Bug” not only kills and eats its victims, but also wears its victims corpses on its body as part of its suit of armor.