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TIL the breakup of Yugoslavia was arguably accelerated by a Serbian man who was injured while pleasuring himself with a glass bottle. When questioned by doctors, he blamed his injury on an attack by "Albanian separatists" and became a cause celebre for Serbian ultranationalists.

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X011P TIL that two scientists realised that the very same AI/ML technology they developed to discover medicines for rare diseases could also discover 40,000 new chemical weapons in under a day.
wQv7 TIL a woman tried to use a fake million dollar bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at Wal-Mart and expected $998,325 in change
6EJZ TIL a package of 3 Musketeers chocolate bars originally had three different flavored candy bars inside, hence the name.
vWE4 TIL the US tried to make cat guided bombs during WWII to hit enemy ships. The hope was that the cat would see the ship as “dry land” and steer the bomb to the target, in an effort to avoid getting wet. The project was abandoned because the cats would lose consciousness in the low G conditions.
68Zl TIL that Shanghai’s population is 24 million, more than the entire population of Australia, packed into a city half the size of Sydney.