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TIL The US Military had a Second Battle of Midway where they waged war against albatross (gooney birds) and had killed tens of thousands of them before giving up and leaving the atoll

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kepg TIL In 2005 , the United Nations Deemed SCOTLAND “The Most Violent Country in The Developed World”
M7XnV TIL that there has been an alternative to the standard http internet, called Project Xanadu, in continuous development for the past 62 years, and was called "the longest running vaporware" even back in 1995.
j6ELE TIL That students at Moscow State University constructed an elaborate and "illegal" computer network in the dorms
W7E6Y TIL: The agricultural flail, a tool used to thresh grain, was adapted into both the nunchuck, a Japanese martial arts weapon, and the military flail, a weapon used in medieval warfare
VMPRD TIL to film the scenes of the audience watching the "Ass Movie" in Idiocracy (2006), a theater was rented and extras were paid to watch a buttocks on the screen, which garnered genuine laughter--making Mike Judge consider his own film a waste of time.