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TIL: in the late 1970's, the Rhodesian army unit the Sealous Scouts used chemical and biological weapons against guerillas, including dispersing cholera and anthrax into village water sources.

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VBEm4 TIL in 1905, a murderer was beheaded. After the guillotine fell, the severed head made eye contact with a doctor who called his name.
yN5X TIL: A confidential study by the music industry downplays filesharing and suggests 70% of all unpaid music comes from offline swapping.
Y7e57 TIL that in November 1923, due to the hyperinflation in Germany post-WW1, one US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 German Marks
VMV04 TIL that in the 70s the US and Soviet baby feared the other had developed a new antisubmarine weapon that damaged wires rubber attached to probes due to deep circle holes left in the rubber, it turns out that these were in fact the bite marks of the relatively unknown cookie cutter sharks
X077j TIL about the Phantom Time Hypothesis, a conspiracy that suggests that the AD dating system was fabricated to place Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Pope Sylvester II, and Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII at 1000 AD. According to this, the years AD 614 - 911 (the early Middle Ages) never happened.