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TIL Flamingos can drink boiling water

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awk00 TIL squirrels were originally placed in US cities as a way to reconnect city dwellers with nature
NX05J TIL in 2002 the Pentagon ran a war game to simulate war with Iran. Marines general Paul Van Riper, playing the defender, sank 19 U.S. ships in 5-10 minutes, including a carrier, several cruisers, and five amphibious ships. He quit the game in disgust after he was ordered to play fair
Rn96 TIL More than a decade later, Techno Viking took the original uploader to court.
0wlbN TIL That the Vikings were the first people to arrive in Greenland in 982 AD, however they were colonized and eliminated by the Inuit from 1100 AD to 1300 AD
5MPk TIL: Back in the ’60s, the Beatles wanted to make a movie adaptation of Lord of the Rings, with Stanley Kubrick directing, but Tolkien killed the project.