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TIL The US Marine Corps is currently working on Project Hot Eagle, a program that when finished, may be able to place squads of Marines anywhere on the planet in two hour’s notice, similar to that of the Halo series’ ODSTs.

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wj16 TIL that During World War II in the pacific, approaching soldiers in Allied uniforms were ordered to shout lollapalooza back to the ones manning the checkpoint — if they pronounced the L’s as R’s, as Japanese soldiers were likely to do, they could be identified as spies.
PYAMJ TIL Dolph Lundgren aka Drago has a masters degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney(‘82)and Royal Institute of Technology(‘80). He received a fulbright scholarship to MIT(‘83). He’s European Champion in Karate (‘81) and has an IQ of 160.
DKLv TIL Dr. Dre made almost $20 per second in 2014
R55r9 TIL Osama bin Laden's mother-in-law collapsed and died of shock on news of his death
9YWeG TIL American soldiers in the Pacific theater of WW2 always used passwords containing the letter 'L' due to Japanese mispronunciation, a word such as lollapalooza would be used and upon hearing the first two syllables come back as 'rorra' would "open fire without waiting to hear the rest".