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TIL that the Gurkha Contingent is the last remaining unit in Singapore to employ original British drill commands.

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pXRQ TIL of the “pig toilet” which users poop into while pigs hungrily feed on the contents of the defecation
GY9wj TIL of Betsy Aardsma, a graduate student who was stabbed at the Penn State University library. Because the wound was so small and the fact that she was wearing a red dress, no one noticed that she was stabbed until after she died, and EMTs thought she was suffering a seizure. The case is unsolved.
xVvMB TIL There is a Space Screwdriver has been circling low Earth orbit at up to 21,600 miles per hour for the last 35 years.
LQ1NZ TIL Einstein didn't believe it was possible for 2 photons to communicate instantly, no matter how far apart they were, because it would mean that information is travelling at a speed faster than light. It turns out that Einstein was wrong: it's possible, and it's known as quantum entanglement.
PgpL TIL Stephen King thought Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining “was not a good adaptation of his novel and is the only adaptation of his novels that he could ‘remember hating’.