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TIL that in Thailand there is an army recruitment lottery. Every man over 21 has to participate. Red card you go, black card you don’t.

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5be9 TIL a Florida man was stranded on a sandbar with sharks circling around him. He kept them at bay with a fishing pole for an hour and a half, after which he remembered he had a cell phone and called for help.
XEAZR TIL Researchers created an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of experiments, they were able to recover intelligible speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass
yxje TIL For every Navy Seal, there are ~1000 imposters who claim to have served in the US Navy Seals.(28:30 onwards)
RjwQ TIL after it was reported that a guesthouse in Hudson, NY charged guests $500 for giving negative online critiques, Yelpers gave it hundreds of one-star reviews
JY1r4 TIL of the practice of deloping, or "throwing away" your first shot in dueling, giving more meaning to the repeated refrain "I am not throwing away my shot" in the musical "Hamilton"