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TIL Jimi Hendrix was kicked out of the 101st Airborne for, among other things, “masturbating in platoon area while supposed to be on detail [sic]”

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LQeJp TIL there's a species of mini-fox about the size of housecats that only lives on a small island chain off of California (the Channel Islands). Each island has its own subspecies of fox that are all slightly different, and together offer a similar glimpse at natural selection as Darwin's Finches.
Me5LV TIL the Chinese city of Fancheng held out for nearly 6 years against the Mongols - until Kublai Khan's nephew sent him Muslim engineers from Iran that built counterweight trebuchets, with a range of 1,600 ft. and launching projectiles weighing 660 lbs. The city fell within a few days.
BoaL TIL Nasir ad-Din Tusi, a Persian polymath, developed a theory of evolution by natural selection 600 years before Darwin. He wrote that hereditary variability is the leading force of evolution, and that organisms which can change faster are ‘more variable’, thus giving them an advantage over others
K88w TIL after Germany’s openly-gay Foreign Minister called him “Europe’s last dictator”, Belarus’s President responded that it was “better to be a dictator than gay”.
69llX TIL that the "Streisand Effect" suggests that the quickest way to learn information online is not to ask the right question, but rather to post a wrong answer