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8LEG TIL Female Indonesian military applicants receive ‘two-finger’ virginity tests, involving doctors inserting fingers into their vagina and anus. Fiancees of male Indonesian military applicants are also subjected to these tests, sometimes conducted by men.
pLkZ TIL When the USA decommissions a nuclear submarine, the reactor compartment will end up in a special submarine graveyard. It’s an open trench meant to be visible for treaty verification by satellite.
GY1G7 TIL that the content delivery network CloudFlare uses a wall of 100 lava lamps as a way to generate entropy for a random number generator
7rmJr TIL of beaked whales, a set of 22 species of whales with beaks like dolphins, some of which reach sizes of over 42 feet and which prey on colossal squid in the deep sea.
Z8vpp TIL Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe owned roughly one percent of all the money in Denmark, wore a nose made of gold after losing his own in a duel and had a pet moose that he sent out to attend parties in his place until it one night got so drunk that it fell down a flight of stairs and broke its neck