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TIL Morocco is the United States oldest ally.
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TIL that Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Ramzi Yousef (the 1993 World Trade Center bomber), and Timothy McVeigh (the Oklahoma City bomber), all became friends in prison, and regularly discussed religion and politics until McVeigh's execution.
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TIL cattle and sheep emit 11% of Australia’s greenhouse gasses. Switching over to kangaroos for meat production would eliminate this.
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TIL in 1977 the mayor of Vulcan, WV requested foreign aid from the Soviet Union after two years of requests to the state about repairing the town's only bridge. Within an hour of a Russian journalist's arrival, the state agreed to help repair the bridge.
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TIL how trash is disposed of in modern large submarines. Trash is deposited into a Trash Disposal Unit (TDU) which collects and compacts it into a galvanized steel can. A ball valve is opened allowing the scrap iron-weighted can to fall down to the sea floor.
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TIL that Halloween, as it’s celebrated in modern times in the United States, is a result of intermingled traditions from immigrants based on Samhain, Pomona Day, and Day of the Dead.