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TIL The US dropped more bombs on Laos than fell on all of Europe during World War II. One third didn’t detonate.

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8nlG TIL of Parlor Rollers. It is a breed of pigeon that can’t fly but can roll or do somersaults on the ground.
d8Ko8 TIL e.g doesn't stand for "example given", it stands for "exempli gratia" (for example) and i.e stands for "id est" (in other words), and they're not interchangeable.
yVBjp TIL that a cyanometer is an instrument used to measure the intensity of blue in the sky
nWrkG TIL Seven Months Before JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald Tried to Assassinate a Former Army General
ZBYQ TIL that DC Comics’ original candidate for its first headlining black superhero was the Black Bomber, a white racist who would turn into a black superhero under stress. Comics historian Don Markstein called it “an insult to practically everybody with any point of view at all.”