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Y7JDZ TIL in 1969 the Department of the Army released TM 31-210, which describes in detail the manufacturer of munitions from seemingly innocuous locally available materials.
KYWMR TIL the Chinese yuan, Japanese yen and South Korean won are all synonyms (圓, "round")
P1eGO TIL the U.S. military is missing 6 nuclear weapons - the longest missing nuclear weapon hasn't been seen in 71 years, and it is unlikely it will be found anytime soon.
JYMev TIL that Mars' Olympus Mons has such gentle sloping, that it would be impossible for a ground observer to see the entire mountain, as the curvature of Mars would obscure the view.
0wVLM TIL that natural gas was discovered serendipitously around 500 BC in China. Bamboo pipelines were used to transport the gas, which was used to boil salt water to extract salt.