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j6oYM Today I learned the official HTTP error code 418 means the server is a teapot and it refuses to brew coffee.
O481 TIL Dennis Wilson, the only member of the Beach Boys who could actually surf, died by drowning.
gMLj8 TIL that during WWII the Japanese launched 1000s of balloon bombs towards North America. Only a few hundred of the devices have been found.
16g4 TIL that when US forces invaded Iraq and went to capture or kill Sadam Husseins sons, they hotwired Uday’s Lamborghini LM002 and then blew it up
Z5PY TIL Verizon made a deal in 1994 with the PA state gov. to provide the entire state with fiber internet by 2014, it received 2.1 billion in tax breaks, but never fulfilled it’s part of the contract