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TIL that the United States Marine Corps tested the usefulness of ordinary skateboards in urban combat

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BgWMb TIL That the largest group of ethnically Japanese people outside of Japan is in Brazil.
4Z9N TIL The CIA has backed 7 coups around the world
18BD TIL that “Chimpanzees, who cannot swim, have drowned in zoo moats trying to save others.” And “Given the chance to get food by pulling a chain that would also deliver an electric shock to a companion, Rhesus monkeys will starve themselves for several days.”
rJK4 TIL An eight day riot occurred in NY city in 1922 after people wore straw hats past the unofficial date deeming it socially acceptable
4XZRJ TIL: Two stones set in to a quiet Edinburgh street mark the site of Scotland's last hanging (in 1815) of convicted highwaymen. Sympathy for the executed men and folklore over the decades spawned a legend that the cement around the stones never fully dries.