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

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a8jLN TIL in the 5th century, a Chinese missionary named Hui Shen claimed to have found a land east of China called Fusang. It is now theorized that Fusang may have actually been North America, due to archeological similarities between the California coast and Fusang as depicted by Asian sources.
kOY4W TIL that in December 2013, Tinder had its first Antarctica match between an American McMurdo Station scientist and visiting camper, a 45 minute helicopter ride away
VMbDD TIL In 2016 Cards Against Humanity raises $100,000 to dig 'tremendous hole'
b9Qyj TIL China produced a swimsuit poster in 1990, "The feeling of the sisters of the two coasts", showing young Chinese and Taiwanese women in a sisterly gathering, indicating how good relations are (or should be) on both sides of the Taiwan Strait
a8gZo TIL that Steve Kerr named his son Nick