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TIL that the French military has a long tradition of organising brothels for its soldiers, both at bases and near front lines, including in the Algerian and Vietnamese wars. The last one at a base closed in 2003

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b6ZrQ TIL a residnece st 220 Central Park South was sold in 2019 for nearly $240 million, the most expensive home sold anywhere in the United States
k0Q1 TIL Coyotes and badgers will hunt together. The badger digs up the prey and the coyote runs it down.
PDoJ TIL: In 1971 the Prince of Laos was caught at a french airport with 123 pounds of pure heroin that he planned on shipping to New York
RbRw TIL that in 2007 the Taliban used GPS data from photos uploaded to Facebook from soldiers to locate and destroy 4 Apache gunship helicopters.
8gZV TIL that one of the primary goals of alchemy - transmuting a base metal into a noble metal - was achieved as early as 1924 when gold was produced by neutron bombardment of mercury.