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TIL: Upon seeing the flamethrower for the first time, Lewis "Chesty" Puller asked "Where the Hell do you put the bayonet?"

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EQ9P TIL Universal Studios keeps a cage at each ride to house Service Dogs for patrons while they ride.
ObkY TIL there is a Danish rocketry club currently aiming to become the first amateur group to launch a person into space.
wbaE TIL Metallica was told that expletives were prohibited during their performance at the 1996 MTV Europe awards performance. They were expected to play a slow song from their new album. Instead, they played the two most offensive songs that they had.
W8R8 TIL of the ‘Banana massacre’ in 1928, where up to 3000 striking workers where killed by colombian forces, after the US threatened to invade if they would not protect american interests.
XEVgR TIL Grizzly bears' muscles suffer no atrophy despite months of inactivity in hibernation; scientists discovered that non-essential amino acids (NEAAs) regulated by particular grizzly bear muscle proteins allowed muscle growth during inactivity.