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TIL, in 1893, the Dole Food Company, overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii, setting up a provincial government

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AN9Pa TIL: The Gundam series idea of dropping space colonies on Earth was based on a real concept developed in the 1960s known as Ivan's hammer at the annual American Astronautical Society. Which described the use of asteroids as WMDs. Decades later, Carl Sagan and the RAND Corp discussed the feasibility.
9wk8B TIL there's a 17th century printing of the Bible that's referred to as "The Wicked Bible" because it contains the misprint "Thou shalt commit adultery."
oRK9A TIL the nine largest metro systems are in China and six of them are less than 20 years old
4kEZo TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev was a spokesperson for Pizza Hut. Link Below!
pYM1Q TIL your eyes rotate torsionally in their sockets durring head tilt and its not just post processing by our brain!