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TIL That New Zealand has an Army... and it looks exactly as fun, awesome, and friendly as a Kiwi Army should.

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E1Q77 TIL all 66 characters with speaking roles in the 1984 cartoon series ThunderCats were voiced by only eight actors, with each actor voicing an average of 8.25 characters.
p8Xdp TIL Over 100 bronze Roman dodecahedrons "from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD" have been unearthed over the past three centuries. No written sources from the period mention these objects, and scholars continue to speculate about their mysterious purpose.
vAl8 TIL of USAF Captain Craig Button. In 1997 he broke formation and flew his jet for almost 800 miles before crashing into a mountain. The bombs on his jet were not recovered at the crash site and no one knows what happened to the bombs or the reason for his actions.
x608g TIL when it gets cold enough, daddy long legs will huddle together in the thousands to create warmth.
Br5Kd TIL over 62,000 Swedes were sterilized as part of a national program grounded on eugenic, medical and social grounds. This program continued into the 70's.