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TIL: A declassified CIA project 'OXYGAS' had trained dolphins to place explosives on enemy ships

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XEOV6 TIL that in 1825, the panda was given its name by a French zoologist. 76 years later, the name was lent to a black and white bear that was mistakenly thought to be a close relative. The giant panda’s name stuck, and the original panda became the lesser or red panda.
MDO7 TIL: if you take the cost of the raw materials in a human body; A human costs about $1985.77
ZpgmR TIL The first digital computer weighed 30 tons & was 30 m long. But when integrated circuits were invented, the same computer would weigh a few grams & measure 7.44 mm by 5.29 mm.
vPvoj TIL the 3D shape that we know as a donut 🍩 is scientifically named “torus”
B05L TIL there is a “Zip Bomb” called 42.zip that when downloaded is only 42 Kilobytes, but actually contains 4,500,000 Gigabytes uncompressed. The file crashes computers when Anti-Virus software comes across it during a routine scan and tries to open the entire file, using up all the computer’s memory.