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TIL that the father that shot down that expensive drone for spying on his teenage daughter while she was sun bathing, was released of all charges and the courts dismissed the cases

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8a8KL TIL Giant 6ft otters still exist in three remote river systems of South America. They hunt in packs and can even take on crocodiles.
VMwRG Today I learned that there are 1.4 billion insects for every human on Earth. If all the humans in the world got on one scale, and all the bugs in the world got on another scale, the bugs would weigh more.
GgKg TIL: Grease Trivia - Saran wrap was used in lieu of condoms in the 50’s - Thus its appearance in the Grease Lightning number.
JYVK4 TIL of the Parsley massacre when Domincan forces killed as many as 35,000 Haitians. Few bullets were used – instead, Haitians were bludgeoned and bayonetted, then herded into the sea, where sharks finished what the soliders had began.
wLdmM TIL: The US military was already using UAV drone technology in WWII. The primary manufacturer at that time, Radioplane Company, had a drone assembler named Norma Jeane Dougherty, who eventually changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.