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TIL about a unit of measurement: The Smoot

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gDd8 TIL one of the earliest weapons of mass destruction was used during the Siege of Antwerp in 1585. A Dutch explosive fire ship containing 4 tons of explosive rammed a fortified Spanish bridge, killing 800 spaniards, causing a small tsunami, and vibrating windows 22 miles away
W149 TIL that a morbidly obese Houston man managed to sneak a pistol into a jail by hiding it in his fat folds, before admitting it to the police many hours later.
oBoBW TIL the mosquitos they extracted the blood from to create the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park didn’t actually suck blood, negating the entire premise of the film
ZpYER TIL you can choose from over 260 different license plates in Florida
8Ab8 TIL that Hitler never regarded the Chinese and Japanese as inferior to the Aryans. He thought that “their past history was superior to our own”