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TIL Project A119 : a top-secret project to nuke the Moon

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b6XnN TIL The Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island, James Douglas, invited the Black community of San Francisco to settle there in 1858 and give them equal rights after they become British subjects
pgBO TIL in Rocky (1976), Rocky 2 (1979), and Rocky Balboa (2006), Rocky’s pet turtles Cuff and Link were the same two turtles each time.
RJx6 TIL ants can accidentally misinterpret the chemical trails left by other ants and start walking in circles. If too many members of the colony join in, it can kill the whole colony in what is sometimes known as the ‘Death Spiral’
nJ09 TIL that in ancient Rome, after a person pooped, a communal sponge was used to wipe. The sponge was then rinsed in a bucket of salt water before being used by the next person.
R7LP4 TIL In the United States, in a single eighteen-month period during 1971 and 1972 the FBI counted an amazing 2,500 bombings on American soil, almost five a day.