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TIL that the Ukrainian Navy had Dolphins equipped with Pistols on their heads.

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R7ew9 TIL Harry Houdini was an aviation pioneer and the pilot of the first controlled, powered flight in Australia
Ej7w TIL that Wu Zetian, the only female emperor of China, forced visiting officials to pay their respects by performing oral sex on her
jJxX TIL a Chechen nationalist group took an entire school hostage in the town of Beslan, which resulted in the death of over 300 people, including children. This group has been increasingly associated with major jihadist/terrorist groups in the Middle East and remains prevalent in the world to this day.
wLRYP TIL that in 1965, California City, located in the mojave desert, was designed to be a metropolis built to rival Los Angeles. But lack of funds caused the city to never be built. The city currently has a population of around 15,000, and has a size of 125 square miles.
W7dwd TIL: Economist Michael Housman used to data from 30,000 employees to find correlations between their preferred browser and job performance. Employees who used Firefox/Chrome stay 15% longer and were 19% less likely to miss work and had happier customers than employees who used IE or Safari.