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TIL the US Navy placed a top secret tap on a Russian underwater communications cable in the Sea of Okhotsk after finding the cables' location was marked by signs along the remote Siberian shoreline saying "No anchoring - underwater cable".

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BdPx TIL the Neapolitan mastiff almost died out in World War 2
PYLlg TIL that in the past year there were an average of over 9700 planes carrying 1.2 million people in the sky at any given time. That would make the skies the 156th most populous country in the world,right between Estonia and East Timor.
b6O4N TIL about the Angola Prison Rodeo, the longest-serving prison rodeo in the U.S. One event is “convict poker,” where a bull is released with the sole purpose of unseating poker players, and the players must resist the urge to run away in order to win.
OojwX TIL: Tomato plants fertilized with human urine produce up to four times more fruit and had higher levels of beta-carotene & protein than traditional fertilizers.
gMN57 TIL The Manchu–Han Banquet was one of the grandest meals ever documented in Chinese culinary history and consisted of (at least) 108 dishes served in six meals over the course of three days