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TIL :The The floating turd mystery that still haunts NASA

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Bk6y TIL while on trial for treason the lawyer of Michel Ney, one of Napoleon’s marshals, argued that French courts could not try Ney because he was Prussian since his hometown had been annexed by Prussia. Ney ruined the defense by interrupting, “I am French and will remain French.” Ney was executed.
0Gx1 TIL the CIA has a museum but you can’t visit it.
OGxQg TIL in Kyrgystan they play polo with a headless goat
4XZaw TIL although regular concrete needs steel formwork, 3D printed concrete has different methods of achieving structural integrity
VMXB4 TIL: December 5th is Krampusnacht or "Krampus Night" when men dressed as Krampus drink alcohol, run through the streets, and chase delinquent children around and hit them with sticks. Many anthropologists believe the tradition is pre-Christian and goes back to pagan mythology.