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TIL that Dr. Ruth, America’s leading sex psychologist, is a trained sniper.

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d80ME TIL that in the US, humans are more likely to survive a lightning strike than die from it. Only 10% of lightning strikes cause death.
eeKJ TIL Gorillas were originally thought to be Humans when discovered by Carthage, and Gorilla is the Greek word for “tribe of hairy women”
8eNaX TIL the CIA considered making a deepfake video of Saddam Hussein “cavorting with a teenage boy” in an effort to destabilize the country before the US invasion.
VBoW4 TIL In China’s Han dynasty (206 BC – 24 AD), the highly prized and gentle pandas graced the gardens of the emperors. Pandas were believed to have mystical powers.
yQEra TIL a bouncing bomb is a bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a manner to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, and to allow both the bomb's speed on arrival at the target and the timing of its detonation to be pre-determined, in a similar fashion to a regular naval depth charge.