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TIL The highly classified Task Force Black removed or killed 3,500 insurgents from the streets of Baghdad, reducing bombings from 150 per month to about 2 per month.

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yola TIL the radioactive isotope Polonium-210 is found in tobacco smoke.
1Vjr TIL in 2011 the city of Portland, Oregon discarded 7.8 million gallons of drinking water, not because of the dead animals “regularly found in the drinking supply,” but because a drunk 21-year-old peed in it.
9YpY6 TIL the verb 'to snipe' originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where hunter skilled enough to kill a particularly elusive bird, the snipe, were called 'snipers'. This is also the origin of the term 'snipe hunt' to describe an impossible task.
E1a4w TIL in WW2 they used special smoke screens that were that were half a mile long and hundreds of feet tall to hide ships and blimps from enemies.
GYeW4 TIL that in 2015 a Texas man was hospitalized after trying to kill an armadillo. After shooting at the armadillo three times with a .38 revolver, one of the bullets ricocheted off the animal and hit him in the face. The armadillo was not found by the police after the incident.