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TIL about Operation Christmas Drop, a tradition since 1952 where the US Air Force drops Christmas gifts from airplanes on some Pacific Islands

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ZyEY TIL many phrases in English come from literal translations of Chinese phrases, such as “long time no see”, “no go”, “lose face” and “no can do”
vE98 TIL bestiality was not illegal in Washington until 2005, when a man named Kenneth Pinyan died from internal injuries from having receptive anal sex with a horse on film. At a horse brothel. TIL there’s a thing called a horse brothel.
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gMVBD TIL During the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, to help USA/USSR relations, astronauts and cosmonauts played smuggled audio recordings of glasses clinking, laughter, and many female voices. Houston radioed to ask what’s going on. "Oh nothing,” they said. “We finished work, just having a party up here."