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TIL France and Brazil had a "war" over lobsters

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e08pJ TIL that the Ho Chi Minh trail was not simply a few footpaths but a network of tracks wide enough to drive trucks along, and multiple oil pipelines that by the end of the war had supplied 270,000 tonnes of petroleum to troops in southern Vietnam
WMYA TIL: The Citadel of Arbil is (apparently) the oldest continuously inhabited town in the world (dating back to the 5th millennium BC)
bPBZ TIL of Cincinnatus, a man who was twice given near-absolute authority over the Roman Republic and who twice gave it up.
8YoG TIL that a duck’s feathers are so waterproof that even when the duck dives underwater, its downy underlayer of feathers will stay completely dry.
mEVx TIL in 1995 a man robbеd a bank with lеmon juicе on his facе. Sincе lеmon juicе makеs for invisiblе ink hе thought it would rеndеr his facе invisiblе on camеra.