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TIL about Baron Jean de Selys Longchamps's attack on the Gestapo headquarters in Brussels without it being cleared as part of the original mission.

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yQjpX TIL in 2007 Australia spent $84 million on a porn filter. It was hacked by a 16 year old Melbourne student in about 30 minutes.
6ERAX TIL Philippine-based inventors have created a portable salt-powered lamp which gives 8 hrs of light per 1 cup of seawater & can also power cell phones. It uses science that's the basis of battery-making but with no flammable parts & works 8 hrs/day for 6 months with no parts replacement needed.
d8Med TIL there are multiple republics within Russia with their own governments and ethnicities including the Mari El folk who are one of the last remaining strongholds for practicing paganism.
vPwj7 TIL that the UK's Violet Club nuclear device was so unstable that it required the core to be filled entirely with half a ton of ball bearings to prevent accidental detonation
NX7E1 TIL that after the 2019 Alabama tornado, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians donated $184k to fund the funerals for all 23 fatalities as a result of the storm