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TIL that the Soviet Union disguised their flamethrowers to avoid sniper targeting during WW2

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YproB Today I learned that stock market fraud has been around since the 16-18th centuries
b9X60 TIL that Disney's 'A Bug's Life' was inspired by the Aesop fable 'The Ant and the Grasshopper' were the Grasshopper (who has spent all summer singing) begs the Ant for food (who has spent all summer storing it) when winter arrives, but he is refused
w8M6 TIL that not only do we see distant stars as they were thousands of years ago, but we also still experience their gravity from thousands of years ago, and not from where they are now. We even experience the pull of gravity from stars that have burned out.
Wo58 TIL The Detroit Lions went undefeated in the preseason the year they went 0-16.
krom TIL Banksy’s New Orleans work is under attack by an anti-graffiti vigilante known only as ‘The Gray Ghost’