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TIL North Korea sent 24 troops to fight the Americans during the US invasion of Grenada.

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woZAo TIL that the largest ship currently in service is 1,312 feet long and 200 feet wide, the HMM Algeciras. Why not make one bigger? It will not fit in the Suez Canal.
PonL TIL that besides playing the voice for the Joker in Batman, Mark Hamill has voice acted many villains, like Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar, the last Airbender, Colonel Muska in Castle in the Sky, the Hobgoblin in Spider-Man
4XL76 TIL the waterbed was invented in 1833 by a Scottish Physician. He intentionally did not patent it so that anyone could design their own variation of the waterbed and it could help as many people as it could who were suffering from bed sores.
M94b TIL that there was an experiment to teach dolphins English. A dolphin called Peter did actually learn a few words but actually fell in love with his teacher and also had sexual urges. Consequently, the experiment ended pronto but unfortunately the dolphin couldn’t cope and committed suicide.
8e5EK TIL In the Babylonian epic poem Enūma Eliš, the Milky Way is created from the severed tail of the primeval salt water dragoness Tiamat, set in the sky by Marduk, the Babylonian national god.