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TIL banned since 2008 for ‘unacceptable humanitarian consequences’, antipersonnel cluster bombs were first used by the Germans in WW2. In Iraq in 1991, 61,000 were dropped , containing 20 million submunitions

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Ko9a TIL the phrase to ‘blow a raspberry’ is derived from cockney rhyming slang in which you rhyme your desired word (fart) with another word that is used in a sensible phrase (raspberry tart), then use the non-rhyming word for the original word (raspberry=fart).
4Kb TIL Fox News Corporation discussed the possibility of creating a cable channel that would only air the Simpsons.
VMPyB TIL: on tour in 1974 Frank Sinatra referred to Australian female journalists as buck & a half hookers, the resulting public outrage saw the unions black ban him. The tour resumed after future Prime Minister Bob Hawke brokered a deal over a bottle of brandy & Sinatra issued a "statement of regret"
VZwm TIL that the 10th tallest pyramid in the world is a Bass Pro Shop megastore in Tennessee
WkddY TIL as well as being the largest mammals, blue whales are also the loudest, producing low-frequency "pulses" that can be heard from more than 500 miles away.