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TIL: The mission to kill Osama bin Laden was called Operation Neptune's Spear in honour of the SEAL trident, which is Neptune's Spear.

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loPDK TIL 1 day old baby Reindeer are faster than an Olympic sprinter
4eDb TIL Elephants have been observed to mimic human speech. One elephant, named Batyr, reportedly had a vocabulary of about 20 words.
JY4Q4 TIL: Napoleon seriously considered using a fleet of troop-carrying balloons as part of his proposed invasion force of Britain in the 1805 but backed out due to dangerous winds.
mmBv TIL: A turtle’s penis is, in fact, shaped like a turtle. [NSFW]
9Oxp TIL that Scarlett Johansson was asked by Oxfam (for whom she was a global ambassador) to stop supporting SodaStream in Israel (which had built illegal settlements in Palestine). She chose to leave Oxfam and do a SuperBowl advert for SodaStream instead.