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VBWP8 TIL about Operation Cottage. A joint US-Canada military operation in 1943 to take back an occupied Alaskan Island. Unfortunately, Canadians and Americans mistook each other for Japanese and open fired, killing 92 soldiers and wounding over 200 others.
vPOa8 TIL that many of the lifeforms in the Ediacaran Period (c. 635–538.8 Mya), are very challenging to place in the tree of life. We are not sure whether they are animals, lichens, algae, fungi, microbial colonies, or some strange intermediate between plants and animals.
oOLK TIL when the original Mortal Kombat game came out, an audit menu listed Error Macros under the name ERMAC, leading fans to think there was a third hidden ninja in the game. This myth resulted in the creation of the character in future games.
W4XL TIL there was an all girl band that would throw a ‘Golden Condom’ to the audience, and whoever got it, male or female, was taken backstage to have sex with band members.
Aorx TIL that there are 7 countries where you can be put to death for being an atheist. In all seven countries, Islam is the state religion