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TIL that Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood comes from a community of Bargees (also known as "water gypsies"), and that his generation was the first to not be born on a boat

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b6ovj TIL that in the 1971 INDO-PAK war, BBC once mistakenly reported that Indian Air Force had air-dropped 5,000 soldiers,13 times more than the actual number of 384.The incorrect report scared Pakistan and hastened the surrender of Pakistani soldiers which eventually led to the liberation of Bangladesh.
exDE TIL There is an old soviet scientific research hut buried 20 ft. under snow in one of the most inaccessible places in Antarctica. If you can make it in the hut there is a visitors book you can sign.
7nKL TIL that 28 US states have an official state beverage. 21 of those 28 chose milk. Alabama chose whiskey.
vVO8 TIL Ziad Jarrah, one of the hijackers in the 9/11 attacks, had always wanted to be a pilot but his father discouraged him. He later cited his reasoning: “I only have one son and I was afraid that he would crash.”
woEWM TIL A study shows pairing giant pandas with a preferred partner increased the probability of intromission success and producing a cub. Of the 25 females mated to a preferred partner, 72% had successful intromission.