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TIL that Dr. Dre was filmed using airsoft replicas instead of real firearms in “Training Day,” possibly because the film’s armorer couldn’t get permits for him due to his criminal record.

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8ekja TIL about the Anti-Tank Dog. Dogs taught to carry explosives to tanks, armored vehicles and other military targets. It failed because they would train the dogs using their own tanks and would mine friendly tanks instead.
5YLQQ TIL Germany tried brokering peace between the China and Japan during WW2
M7xZW TIL Double jeopardy is legal in England and Wales. The Criminal Justice Act 2003, allows an acquitted person's protection against double jeopardy to be withdrawn for certain serious offenses when there is new and compelling evidence and permits a retrial.
VBnjm TIL: The US Navy once fired a torpedo at a ship carrying the president of the United States
loKlG TIL during World War 1 the Ottoman Empire rounded up and slaughtered over 1,500,000 Armenians living in their empire. This event was the basis for the creation of the word "Genocide".