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TIL that Ronald Reagan was strangled nearly to death by his chimpanzee costar

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JYxgm TIL Switzerland finally dismantled last Cold War-era explosives from a bridge leading to Germany. They built such defenses to protect the country in the time of invasion!
6ExAm TIL that a monty python sketch repeatedly referring to SPAM (canned cooked pork that got popularized in WW2) inspired the use of the word for mass unsolicited emails
y8VM TIL that in 1934 a 5,000 lb. manta ray was caught. Unusally large specimens are 3,000 lbs.
671l TIL wind chill calculations assume that your exposed face is roughly five feet off the ground, it’s night, and you’re walking directly into the wind in an open field at a clip of about 3 mph.
5Y9AR TIL The number of aircraft destroyed during WWII is greater than the number of aircraft that currently exist in the entire world today.