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TIL the US has fired a quarter of a million bullets for every 1 insurgent killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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7rA7r TIL The Queen of England can fire the entire Australian government. In 1975 her representative in Australia fired the prime minister of Australia and the rest of parliament in response to a government shutdown. There hasn’t been another shutdown since.
5pjB TIL of Berthe Mayne, a Belgian singer who claimed to her family to have survived the sinking of the Titanic, traveling 1st class under an alias as the mistress of a young Canadian millionaire. No one believed her until after her death, when her belongings and correspondence corroborated the story.
kOxQE TIL that Dock Ellis threw a no hitter while on LSD
P1nVO TIL you can have a negative magnitude earthquake. Magnitude calcs are based on logarithmic scale so a ten-fold drop in amplitude decreases the magnitude by 1. If an amplitude of 20 mm as measured on seismic signal corresponds to a magnitude 2 earthquake then 1000 times less (0.02 mm) is mag -1.
e0Jeg TIL the theory of dinosaurs' mass extinction by a meteorite was proposed somewhat recently, In 1980