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TIL at age 17, Brock Lesnar joined the Army National Guard, where he was assigned to an office job after his red-green colorblindness was deemed hazardous to his desire to work with explosives

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5YmQP TIL the copyright for Peter Pan is incredibly complicated. Which includes competing laws from the U.K. and the EU; where the U.K. says a children’s hospital owns the rights for forever and the EU saying it’s already public domain.
LkY8m TIL that in 2004, 260 ships were sailing under the flag of Mongolia, despite Mongolia being a landlocked country with no access to the sea
6amQ TIL, Apple in the 80s paid gaming magazines to downplay Mac’s gaming abilities, which was better than the PC’s, to project them as professional tools
DQMmg TIL that the Hindenburg (which was filled with flammable hydrogen gas) had a smoking lounge. The entrance to the lounge was pressurized, and the bartender had to make sure no hydrogen gas leaked, or if someone walked with a lit pipe or lit cigarette
KOjVE TIL the Bearded Vulture's diet is 70-90% bones and often swallows them whole