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TIL: Some farmers in Bangladesh have switched to raising ducks instead of chickens, because during catastrophic floods, ducks float.

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j6rgM TIL A speech, "IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER" prepared for President Richard Nixon in the event of he moon landing being a failure, it detailed the White House’s response should the mission have ended in failure. (part 5 of the article)
eNoJ TIL Wi-Fi was developed by using technology from a failed experiment attempting to detect mini black holes.
PYX6L TIL in 2002, a class action lawsuit was filed against the Association of American Medical Colleges for colluding to overwork and underpay residents (trainee doctors). The suit was dismissed in 2004 when Congress snuck a clause into a Pension bill exempting the AAMC match program from antitrust laws.
kOkjg TIL farmers are hacking into their John Deere tractors with firmware that's cracked in Eastern Europe and traded on invite-only, paid online forums
b69Xa TIL The US and UK from the eighteenth century until the mid-twentieth century considered a country's territorial waters to be three miles out from the land as that was the distance of a cannon shot, i.e. the distance at which a country could defend itself.