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TIL the Royal Navy "sunk" three whales during the Falklands War of 1982

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YpYmZ TIL the first song sung by a computer was Daisy Bell (1892) in the year 1961.
OG7D6 TIL that when the US and France were both trying to build a cross-ocean canal, America originally wanted to build a canal in Nicaragua, not Panama. They only began in Panama after the French failed to complete the project.
KBRE TIL an attempt to kill Philadelphia mobster John Veasy failed when the two .22 caliber bullets to his head unphased him, and he asked his would-be assassin, “What the fuck are you doing, Frank?”
P18Be TIL In 1969 Colorado tried fracking with a nuclear bomb - it worked, but the oil and gas are too irradiated to be used even today
1ELO TIL the Jesuit Order is credited as the single most important contributor to experimental physics in the 17th and 18th Centuries, with significant contributions to the study of magnetism, optics, and electricity; observed the colored bands of Jupiters surface, the Andromeda nebula, and Saturns Rings