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TIL that in 1985 France bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship called the Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand using secret agents under the codename "Opération Satanique"

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DvvJ TIL the US military has a 26 page document dictating the makeup, size, and consistency of brownies and oatmeal cookies.
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woZN1 TIL NASA didn't expect Skylab to deorbit until the early 80s, and made plans to revisit the space station with the shuttle, boost it to a higher orbit, and expand it through the decade. Atmospheric drag from increased solar activity in the late 70s brought it down sooner than anticipated.
prrO TIL the Paraguayan War was so catastrophic for the male population of Paraguay, there were only 26,000 adult men left alive in the country at the end of the war. In addition, the F/M ratio in some areas were high as 20:1.
XE7Pj TIL that Maryland passed the United States' first campaign finance reform law in 1811. It prohibited candidates from purchasing alcohol for voters, which was an extremely common practice at the time.