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TIL The Serbian border police annulles every passport stamp issued by the Republic of Kosovo with an “invalid” stamp to demonstrate its non-recognition of the Kosovo

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kgem TIL Alamo Drafthouse once used an angry voicemail from a kicked-out texter as marketing material, promoting their serious moviegoing image
R5Nk1 TIL about the Readymix logo geoglyph, a 3.2 km × 1.6 km (2.0 mi × 0.99 mi) logo carved into the ground in outback Australia in 1965. For a lone time of it was the largest such signage of its kind in the world.
m1v5v TIL blue whales appear 1.33 times larger than their true size because of refraction of light in water.
RJwj TIL that war pigs were used in ancient warfare, to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
KYwl4 TIL: The World Meteorological Organization, which names storms in alphabetical order, will reuse names every 6 years, unless a storm is exceptionally damaging or deadly.