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TIL During the Cold War, the US tested its ejector seats out on bears.

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XpWr TIL: In 1991, a crowd of hundreds of people tried to play a single game Pong on a big screen, and quickly learned to do it successfully (Loren Carpenter experiment)
PYmaO TIL that transmitting data from person to person via hard drives and physical media is called the Sneakernet
6EEM8 TIL mixing diet soda with alcohol will get you drunker than using a sugar-based option.
e0Kw4 TIL the British government accidentally published classified information about their nuclear submarines in a "redacted" report. The classified information had been "blacked out" in the document, but anyone who opened the document could copy and paste the "blacked-out" text in order to read it.
NX818 TIL about Kriss Donald. This 15 year-old was murdered in 2004 by a gang of five men who had been in a fight with White people that week and decided to get collective vengeance against Whites. They found him, kidnapped him, gouged his eyes off, castrated him, stabbed him and finally set him on fire