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TIL the largest war in history wasn’t between humans but between billions of ants carried out on multiple continents

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d8gLB TIL There’s a Japanese Western Movie With a Mexican Theme, Filmed in Mexico
mxreY TIL in 2012 three researchers proved that many classic Nintendo games are NP-hard by developing a framework for reducing the 3SAT problem to any platform game. This means the question "given a finite level of a game, can the player move from start to finish?" is not computable in polynomial time.
gM4yW TIL of Bert Schneider's controversial speech when he won the Best Documentary Oscar in 1975 for his Anti-Vietnam film Hearts and Minds. He read out a telegram from the Vietcong delegate to the Paris Peace Talks, thanking the antiwar movement for all they had done on behalf of peace.
d8n7E TIL that in the Deep South, you can dig into a jar of sweet and sour Kool-Aid pickles (also know as Koolickles).
d8L87 TIL that Pandora Radio didn't pay it's employees for 2 years. The CEO claimed he "didn't know he was breaking the law"