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TIL Today marks the first time in history an ICBM has been used in combat

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R5MlQ TIL that only about 4% of the Earth's surface has two points on opposite sides of the world that are both on land
d8ePZ TIL the State of Washington once forced Comcast to refund nearly 50,000 customers for charging them a $5/month "service protection plan" that actually did nothing.
mxjPY TIL that in 1970 the University of Connecticut Student Senate voted to sell its mascot, Johnathan (VII) the Husky, because he “represented the establishment”
X0GKk TIL about Operation Tiger, a training exercise that was supposed to prepare U.S. troops for the D-Day invasion of Normandy and resulted in the deaths of 946 American servicemen.
ly5G TIL that there’s a Japanese expression for the sudden urge to defecate when stepping into a bookstore, “the Mariko Aoki phenomenon”