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TIL The Military Kicked Geraldo Rivera Out Of Iraq in 2003 Because He Literally Broacasted The Location and Sensitive Details About Future Movements of The Airborne Unit He Was Accompanying Live on TV

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de0B TIL The US has a $4billion stockpile of milk fat for cheese and butter that is sitting in a cave in Missouri.
aV7J TIL that Greek mythology isn’t a dead religion: People still worship the 12 Greek gods just as the Greeks did.
wLyVE TIL Hong Kong will be returned to mainland China in 2047, no matter what. The former United Kingdom colony was given a 50 year contract of independence as stipulated in the so called "One country, two systems" agreement.
JPvk TIL a chimpanzee named Santino was known to collect rocks and pieces of concrete in the hour before his exhibit opened. Come showtime, he would hurl the dessert plate-sized rocks at zoo patrons.
R7DE8 TIL of "The Attack of the Dead Men" where after being hit with a wave of chlorine gas, 100 Russian soldiers coved in blood and half-blind, successfully launched a counter-attack against the advancing 7000 Germans, who fled at the sight of the "dead men walking".