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TIL the military has a 26-page manual for baking brownies.
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TIL when the German Navy was restarted in 1956, it salvaged a sunk u-boat from World War II and used it till 1980
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TIL that adrenaline addicts in France can buy a basic kidnap package where they’re bundled away, bound and gagged, and kept incarcerated for four hours. Clients have no idea when the kidnappers will strike in order to maximize the surprise.
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TIL the UK has mosquitoes. Never seen one in all my 30 years yet they're common apparently. How???
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TIL that more than half of the oxygen we breathe come from marine photosynthesizers like seaweed and phytoplankton.
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TIL that Harry Conick Jr. once played one bar of a solo song in 5/4 timing so that the unsuspecting audience's clapping would be offset to beats 2 and 4 instead of 1 and 3, unbeknownst to them