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TIL there's a city in Texas called Cut and Shoot, supposedly named after a boy shouted "I'm going to cut around the corner and shoot through the bushes in a minute!" during an altercation.

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ADnb7 TIL that in 1845, Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar ordered 50,000 of her subjects to go on a buffalo hunt. The hunt required building roads across jungles and lasted for 4 months, with around 10,000 people died from exhaustion, starvation, and malarial disease - but not a single buffalo was killed
J1PE1 TIL about Operation Gunnerside; Just when the fuses were about to be lit, the caretaker of the heavy-water electrolysis chambers asked the saboteurs if they could help him find his glasses. The saboteurs obliged. They found his glasses, blew up the chambers and the saboteurs all got out alive.
ANoA4 TIL a 3,200-year-old tablet shows that ancient Egyptians took attendance at work and recorded absences. One type of reason cited for missing work was "wife or daughter bleeding" referring to menstruation because men were needed at home during this time to help with the housework.
QNPy6 Til about Storegga landslides, series of submarine landslides in the Norwegian Sea that triggered massive tsunamis that hit the British isles between 2000 and 8000 years ago.
4vLR TIL Japan has a longer coastline than Australia