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TIL that a suitcase-sized EMP device is available for purchase for peaceful, commercial uses but requires no license to operate.

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wLWjE TIL that in 1964, during the height of Beatlemania, the Beatles landed in Sydney and a woman ran across the airport tarmac and threw her intellectually disabled young child at Paul McCartney shouting, "Catch him, Paul!" McCartney caught him, gave her son back to her and she declared "He's better!"
KYrp6 TIL that rather confusingly “lime tree” can refer to two very different and unrelated trees, at least in the UK. A lime tree is one that produces citrus fruit, or one of the genus Tilia (in North America often called Linden not to confuse with the citrus one)
xJYD TIL a Nazi fighter pilot was ordered to shoot down a crippled American B-17, but instead escorted it out of the kill zone. After WWII, the two pilots met and became best friends until their death.
arrA TIL of the term Paradox of Tolerance: intolerance of the intolerant.
1JGr TIL Moose and elk have been known to get drunk on frozen and slightly fermented apples and commit shenanigans such as breaking into shoe stores and getting stuck in trees.