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TIL that mongoose were imported to Hawaii to control the rat population, not realizing that the two animals were on opposite sleep schedules (nocturnal/diurnal) and thus innefective.

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gAE8 TIL there’s a diamond mine in Siberia so large that helicopter traffic over it is prohibited due to several incidents in which they were “sucked in.”
4kXB6 TIL the largest maritime evacuation in history occurred on 9/11/01. Over 150 vessels responded to the Coast Guard’s call for help and evacuated over 500,000 people from Lower Manhattan in just 9 hours.
d8R4Z TIL that there was a VHS format that could record in 1080i, in 1993.
L44Q TIL that Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden’s height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden’s corpse.
9Yggr TIL Kirk Blocker aka Hitchcock on Brooklyn Nine Nine is the son of actor Dan Blocker aka Hoss on Bonanza