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TIL India and Pakistan fought a war in the mountains at over 20,000 feet in altitude (6,000 meters) in 1984

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Ok5a TIL a Miami Gardens store owner sued the city for harassment by police. One of his employees has been stopped and questioned 258 times in 4 years and arrested 62 times for “trespassing” at the store during his shift.
nlw7 TIL that sunflowers do not track the sun. They always face (approximately) east.
8PQL TIL there exists a drug, Scopolamine, that is used by criminals to turn victims into mindless zombies, doing whatever they are told to
jkMR TIL The world’s first theater devoted exclusively to moving pictures appeared in Pittsburgh in 1905. Its founders called the place Nickelodeon, from the price of admission (a nickel) and “Odeon” the ancient Greek word for theatre.
gZXX TIL, a 400 year-old Bonsai tree had survived the United States’ atomic bomb on Hiroshima…then was later given to the United States as a national gift.