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

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LkLaV TIL about a vigilante from the 1970s who called himself captain sticky. He was a peanut butter and jelly themed crime fighter who had a car that squirted PB&J from the front that he would use to stop kids from stealing hub caps and making graffiti. He later started targeting shady businesses.
E1Gdp TIL dabbing is illegal in Saudi Arabia
bd5Z TIL Jesus Christ is officially the king of Poland
W8Wd TIL when the 1979 film The China Syndrome, about a coverup at a nuclear plant, was released, it was denounced as a ‘character assassination of an entire industry’. 12 days later, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred.
X9j8 TIL that when Kim Peek managed payrolls of 160 people, he was able to complete this task in just hours without a calculator and when he was fired to be replaced by computer, it took two full time accountants plus the computer just to replace him.