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TIL that the Army will be replacing its ineffective ‘digital print’ camo gear in early 2013

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1aKxd TIL Motobu Choki. A legendary Karate master who tested his combat prowess by fighting criminals in the Red Light Districts of Japan.
kOWN1 TIL the US Postal Service creed "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" is a translation of the phrase by ancient Greek historian Herodotus which referred to mounted Persian postal couriers around 500BC
W71eo TIL the DEA updated/clarified some rules & regs for controls including C2 transfers
JORQ TIL The Victorian Government in Australia spent $5.7 Billion on a seawater desalination plant. That plant is complete and in “Standby Mode”, costing $1.8 Million per day to produce NO clean water.
yBLa TIL that there is in fact gravity at the international space station. So much so that someone that weighs 100 lbs on earth would weigh 90 on the station. The reason they float isn’t due to a lack of gravity, but rather because the astronauts are in a perpetual free fall.