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TIL There were so many bombs and chemical weapons dumped into the Gulf of Mexico not even the military knows how much is down there, or where it all is.

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d8B49 TIL dogs are the most diverse land mammal and the largest dogs are 40 times the size of the smallest
7G7r TIL The Dutch were the first to salute the American flag, and therefore the first to acknowledge the independence of, the United States on 16 November 1776.
50O8 TIL there exists a variation of soccer where 3 teams face each other at the same time.
oBa07 TIL of French inventor Charles-Émile Reynaud. He invented the Théâtre Optique, a device for projecting film made several years before the cinematograph (the first widespread projector). Reynaud made the first animated films ever but threw them into a river in a fit of depression. All but one is lost
oBNP8 TIL The meaning of the Military term Hooah is an acronym for HUA = Heard, Understood, Acknowledged