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TIL that in 2007 the Taliban used GPS data from photos uploaded to Facebook from soldiers to locate and destroy 4 Apache gunship helicopters.

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9YW8m TIL that rap superstar Eminem took the idea from “Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down” for the song title “Will the real Slim Shady Please Stand Up”
kOEKe TIL in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt indirectly aided in Woodrow Wilson’s win when he formed the “Bull Moose Party” in retaliation to not winning the republican presidential nomination against Taft, splitting the republican vote.
x66Ob TIL that Daniel Craig had to overcome his fear of heights to shoot the construction site scene in Casino Royale, which required him to climb a 200 foot (60 metre) crane.
x6jeb TiL that aluminium drink cans are on average, recycled ever 60 days. Good work guys.
e0BRg TIL of Robert S. Abbott, who founded 'The Chicago Defender' in 1905 for just $7. With the top circulation of any Black-owned newspaper in the states it made him a multi-millionaire and contributed to The Great Migration. Thanking his ex-landlady for encouraging him, he gave her an 8 room house.