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TIL In 2016 Ninjas launched the Pool War within the Republic of the Congo

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roRy TIL while 1500 people died on the Titanic, it isn’t the worst maritime disaster in history. Almost 10 thousand people died when a German military transport ship was sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1945
9YeVD TIL that driving 45MPH on a stretch of rumble strips in New Mexico will play 'America the Beautiful'
9Yg0m TIL before the United States had an established name there was an early movement to call the country "Fredonia" after the word Freedom. Citizens would be called Fredes or Fredish. The name lost ground after it became a common form of mocking political opponents.
awrKN TIL The Buddha recommended eating rice porridge, saying "There are these five benefits in rice porridge. What five? It stills hunger, dispels thirst, settles wind, cleans out the bladder, and promotes the digestion of the remnants of undigested food. These are the five benefits of rice porridge."
P1p5O TIL: Telecommunication companies participate in each countries' "spectrum auction" in which they bid on the right to use specific bands of the electromagnetic spectrum for a time period. In the US, the FCC has raised over $60 billion from the bids so far.