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TIL that in 1981, law enforcement swept in to stop a band of Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, weapons smugglers, and mercenaries- all armed to the teeth- from invading Dominica and establishing a private state complete with casinos and drug manufacturing facilities.

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NX0L6 TIL that American country, bluegrass and folk has significant influence from the Ulster Scots (or Scots-Irish) that migrated from what is now Northern Ireland to the Appalachian region. Their contribution to this genre is particularly evident in the use of the fiddle, banjo, and dulcimer.
5YEa8 TIL that more than 27 million Americans went hunting in 2016 and that it generates nearly $3.5 billion yearly in federal, state and local taxes.
GY14E TIL about saturation diving. Divers working on deep-sea infrastructure such as oil pipelines live in a pressurised chamber for a month, taken between the chamber and their worksite by a pressurised diving bell. That way, they only need to be decompressed once, at the end of each 28-day job.
DQZOJ TIL a 23-year-old man ingested an estimated 100 dose-units of methamphetamine (≥1g each) fearing he would be arrested for possession after he was in a car accident. He survived the highest core body temperature (113°F; 45°C) in a case with laboratory confirmation of psychostimulant drug exposure.
yZVa TIL that former prime minister of New Zealand, David Lange, once wrote in an opinion piece for a NZ military periodical: “Our military forces are an arm of government, just like the Department of Social Welfare, although probably less able to inflict widespread harm.”