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TIL scientists trained a ferret to run through the Fermilab particle accelerator's main ring to keep it clean.

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Lk14p TIL Osama Bin Laden was actually killed by the CIA, and he had a significant stash of Opium near by. In preparation for the raid, the Seal team was legally signed over to CIA control for legal protection, and all records are shielded from the Freedom of Information Act.
GA1eN TIL the modern gas container, the jerry can, was invented in 1937 Germany. In the start of WWII, the UK used leaky, flimsy tin containers called "flimsies" but soon captured jerry cans and the Allies started copying the German design
eVv4 TIL that “Winterfell” is the same castle used in “Month Python and the Holy Grail”. Doune Castle.
wGZ7 TIL Final Fantasy XI caused Illinois to pass a law requiring that MMO’s let you cancel your subscription online.
aQMZ TIL all of our terrestrial radio and television broadcasts become indistinguishable from background noise at only a few light years away from the Earth thanks to the inverse square law