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TIL pseudoscorpions are a thing

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rR1ro TIL the Smash Mouth hit song "Walkin' on the Sun" is about the 1992 LA riots.
WknP9 TIL: Franklin Roosevelt was incredibly interested in the “Oak Island Mystery” and even invested money into an excavation effort at the age of 27.
Lvxv TIL (or more so, remembered) that the US ARMY’s training manual says the “use of force (torture) is a poor technique, as it yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to say whatever he thinks the interrogator wants to hear.”
M7yN0 TIL that there is a company converting (rebuilding?) DC-3s to turboprops
e0ZGE TIL hieroglyphs were quite colorful, and each color used had symbolic meaning