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TIL A study has found that some soldiers are so attached to their bomb disposal robots that they treat them as if they had personalities, mourn them if they became damaged by enemy explosives; and even hold funerals for them when they ‘die’

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0wD1p TIL: Despite thinking of ourselves as the masters of the planet, the average Hurricane releases energy equivalent of our largest ever nuclear bomb every 60 minutes and produces 5 times the energy the entire human race uses in a year.
awZao TIL that Beethoven's 5th became known as the victory symphony because of the allied forces "V for victory" slogan during WW2. After noticing that the first four notes of the symphony sound like the morse code for the letter V, the BBC played that motif on the timpani before every wartime broadcast.
9YXaG TIL: Among the world's oldest living beings was a tree at least 4800 years old. With irony, "Prometheus" The Tree (AKA study plant WPN-114) finally was cut down in 1964 with involvement from a grad student studying long-living trees and the United States Forest Service. (natural,non-cloned beings)
W7BK9 TIL if all Roman Catholic descendants of the Stuart dynasty that were alive at the time of Queen Anne's death are considered, George I was 55th in the line of succession when he ascended to the British throne in August 1714.
xYyD TIL that “The Stars and Stripes Forever” is onown as “The Disaster March” at circuses, because it is only ever played to signify an emergency without alarming the audience.