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TIL that in 2007 the British Army was forced to deny that they had released man-eating badgers into Iraq.

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grOQ4 TIL in 1962 a General Electric engineer named Nick Holonyak developed the first LED light bulb capable of emitting visible red light. The same bulb was used in the 1964 stop animation animated TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for Rudolph’s bioluminescent nose.
DQOAj TIL that in 2013 scientists were able to genetically modify rabbits to glow in the dark using jellyfish DNA
117W TIL the Milky Way chocolate bar was not named after the galaxy but rather the then-popular Milky Way malted drink
PYgjn TIL that during a Communist Party conference in 1937, following a speech by Stalin, the audience began to clap and carried on for 11 minutes, with no-one daring to be the first to stop. The first person to stop was a paper factory director who was arrested that night and sent to prison for 10 years.
6RMX TIL that NYC Police Officers were formally accused of using an illegal chokehold during an arrest 1,048 times from January 1, 2009 to June 30, 2014 … that’s two complaints filed every three days