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TIL that by the time US Army Rangers have graduated from training school, they’re so well trained that members have reported waking up screaming from nightmares about Ranger school to be relieved that they are only in Vietnam.

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Z8md4 TIL that the Oneida Community, a religious communal society in which older women acted as sexual "mentors" to adolescent boys, eventually dissolved and became a silverware company that is still in business today
Mee78 TIL in the 1930s, people were convinced to use their savings to raise and sell frogs. Problem was, no-one wanted to buy frogs.
d8ja7 TIL that after decades of Florida’s convoluted fireworks law that supposedly made them illegal (but allowed the sale for unlikely purposes, which purchasers would sign “official” forms attesting to), fireworks are now legal for all residents on New Year’s and the Fourth of July.
jNb7X TIL that A team of paleontologists has discovered 17 million-year-old sperm inside tiny shrimp fossils encased in bat guano on the walls of a cave in Queensland, Australia
4XReg TIL that the last survivor of the Crimean War, which ended in 1856, died in 2004 at the age of 160. She was a female tortoise named Timothy who was a mascot for several British naval vessels during the war.