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TIL Male US Marines in uniform cannot carry an umbrella

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JYJEV TIL Hippos can't really swim, but instead walk or sometimes run on the riverbed
Qx6k TIL in 2001 a Columbine-style attack on a San Jose, CA community college was averted because a photo lab employee called the police when she was processing photos of the student posing with guns and homemade bombs. The police were waiting for him when he returned for his photos
j6j6M TIL about Operation Nemesis, a secret plan executed by Armenia to hunt down and assassinate perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. The assassins successfully killed 11 of the highest ranking officials responsible for orchestrating the genocide across at least 5 different countries.
xVw90 TIL that Sultans of the Ottoman Empire immediately executed all their brothers as soon as they took the throne. One Sultan, Mehmed III, had all 19 of his brothers executed and buried alongside their father
aOOL TIL there is a mountain in Australia named Mt. Disappointment, named as the explorers found the view from it sub par and wanted to reflect that.