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m1vpy TIL that you are allowed to beat/assault your wife in Iraq under Article 41 and murdering them will only grant you three years in prison
jNJgM TIL that in 1818 US began building a fort near the New York - Quebec border to defend against invasions from Canada.After 2 years of construction, they realized the fort was actually on the Canadian side.They abandoned it and nicknamed it Fort Blunder.
E1e7p TIL the USSR used a nuclear bomb to put out a gas well fire.
XEZ7X TIL that following his graduation from Harvard, Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello worked as a stripper in Los Angeles
xV7pw TIL about Xia Peisu, “The Mother of Computer Science in China.” With the country isolated from the rest of the world, she managed to develop the first indigenous PC, the Model 107, and to create the first schools in computer science.