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TIL the dingo is the largest mammalian carnivore in Australia

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EwgW TIL President Richard Nixon ordered a tactical nuclear strike on North Korea while drunk, but Kissinger told the Joint Chiefs to ignore the order until Nixon sobered up.
d8A4B TIL Prince hated comparisons to Jimi Hendrix saying the only thing in common they had was being black.
b6O90 TIL that the Game Boy's anti-piracy protection is legal and not technical : games had to include a copy of Nintendo's logo which the console will check in order to launch the game. In case of unauthorised cartridges, Nintendo could make use of Copyright and Trademark laws to take legal action!
y17e TIL a mummified dinosaur was found in Alberta in 2011
JoJ8 TIL the guitar Slash plays on November Rain is a 59 Les Paul that Aerosmiths Joe Perry used in the 1970s before selling it. Perry wanted it back but lost track of it until a friend saw it in a magezine article about Slash. Slash didn’t want to sell, but gave it to Perry for his 50th birthday.