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TIL Pillbugs (Roly Polies) are crustaceans, not insects.

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PYk4G TIL that Throughout the 1950s to the 1970s, the CIA operated a passenger airline company called Air America, which was responsible for allowing the US military access to places in Southeast Asia the Geneva Convention had banned the military from.
XEQdk TIL Borat never actually filmed in a village in Kazakhstan, the village was actually in Romania, and the villagers were angry when they found out Borat had duped them after they were shown the film by visitors
4Xvja TIL that in early Vietnam, after a Chinese general assassinated a man suspected of creating a revolt, the mans wife and her sister created and headed an army of 80,000 to take back Vietnam from the Han Dynasty. They then established an independent Vietnam for 3 years as 2 ruling Queens.
95wm TIL the Roman calendar used to have ten months and that the word October means “8th month”, November means “9th month”, and December means “10th month.”
ydgM TIL the US has a uniformed service that requires all applicants to have Bachelor’s degrees, and whose primary mission is one of science