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TIL one of the earliest cetaceans was land-dwelling and had four long legs.

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lop67 TIL of the Laconia Incident, in which a German U-Boat conducting rescue operations upon Allied troops was deliberately attacked by a US bomber.
LkJ7p TIL that one of the most effective weapons in WW2 was the proximity fuzed shell: the allies were so terrified of the enemy getting hold of samples they were initially only to be used over water by the Navy - there was an embargo on their use over land until 1944.
Lk5xP TIL that scientists have built a device that can scan the pattern of stripes on zebras, as if it were a bar code, in order to differentiate between them.
X0kZX TIL In 1971, Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the moon. He made four swings, “a shank” with the third, and on the fourth swing he caught the ball flush. “Miles and miles and miles,” he said to the TV audience
7aYM TIL Most of the gaming consoles are manufactured in china but their usage is banned in an attempt to protect Chinese youth from wasting their minds away