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LQXXm TIL In 1968 the Swiss army accidentally fired 5 mortar shells into Liechtenstein hitting their only ski resort. Liechtenstein authorities said no one was hurt and they would "only mildly" protest
e0EMJ TIL about the Phytosaurs, an order of reptiles that went extinct at the end of the Triassic. Despite not being closely related, they looked and behaved very similarly to modern crocodilians, in a remarkable example of convergent evolution.
ANg9d TIL A Portugese Man of War is not a jellyfish; it’s a colony of thousands of individual animals called “zooids”
lokjA TIL the sleeve around a Hot Pocket is officially called a Susceptor
D1Bnr TIL that fruit ripening with ethylene gas started after a leaky gas main caused plants to grow abnormally. Dimitry Neljubow a Russian scientist was able to identify the chemical in 1901.