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TIL The Army is looking to build ammo that is biodegradable and also contains seeds. Instead of training grounds being polluted with metal slugs, these grounds will grow flowers which will consume help biodegradable the munitions.

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xVg8b TIL that in 2000, 2 Italian brothers and their friend crossed the Atlantic Ocean by car
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N70ZE TIL in the 1st century AD in Rome, the lead actor in the play, 'Laureolus," would be switched out in the end with a condemned criminal and actually crucified on stage.