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TIL Canada’s longest running military operation involves firing artillery rounds at mountains to trigger avalanches.

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v1K8L TIL that 12 U.S. prisoners of war died when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and as many as 400 Allied POWs may have died as a result of the bombing of Nagasaki.
awyQL TIL: The three horizontal black lines on the side of a school bus are there for emergency responders. In an emergency where the doors and windows can't be opened and they need to cut into the bus, the lines show the positions of the floor boards, the bottom of the seats, and the top of the seats.
xVV5w TIL Hitler and his architect Albert Speer believed in the "Ruin Value" of buildings. He aimed for every building that the Third Reich built to have aesthetically pleasing ruins 1000 years from their completion.
xV551 TIL Jazzman Pat Metheny hated Kenny G playing over Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World, calling it a low point in modern culture and saying his "lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up" playing shat upon all musicians living or dead who were inspired by Armstrong.
Y7Rbv TIL that the full administrative name of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was "The Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of St. Stephen"