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TIL there is a factory in Iran that makes US, British, and Israeli flags purely for burning.

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7xJM TIL During the first Gulf War the United States used bulldozers in an assault on entrenched Iraqi soldiers, burying between 80-250 people alive.
OG7Be TIL The Mongolian People's Republic also had a Great Purge concurrent with the purges carried out by Stalin from 1937-1939. It’s estimated that between 20,000 and 35,000 "enemies of the revolution" were executed, a figure representing three to five percent of Mongolia's total population at the time.
VM09D TIL of a researcher who was trying to develop eye-protection goggles for doctors doing laser eye surgery. He let his friend borrow them while playing frisbee, and his friend informed him that they cured his colorblindness.
kJpV7 TIL Shaquille O'Neal's fifth rap album was scheduled for release on 2001/09/11 but was mysteriously abandoned
yQwBe TIL during WW1, Germany used cow intestines to make Zeppelin airships, and made so many that it became illegal to make sausages, as it diverted cow intestines from the war effort. 250,000 cows were needed for each zeppelin!