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TIL The US Navy uses dolphins to help it defend the world's largest stock pile of nuclear weapons at naval Base Kitsap.

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b971Z TIL people during the American Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s were encouraged to march in their finest clothes so as to reframe the very idea of what a disrupter looked like.
M7ea0 TIL That the United Fruit Company spent over half a million dollars back in 1950 (almost 6 million in 2022) to convince lawmakers and the American public that the Guatemalan government needed to be overthrown. President Truman eventually authorized the CIA to effect a Guatemalan coup d'état in 1952.
XXAr TIL a dog named Pickles found the stolen 1966 FIFA World Cup trophy while going for a walk
lj4r TIL in 2008, Doritos launched a contest called “Doritos The Quest” with a $100,000 prize to guess a new mystery flavor. The mystery flavor turned out to be Mountain Dew.
xB4D TIL that the fabric and wood pieces from the Wright Brothers airplane were flown on the Apollo 11 mission and were in the lunar module Eagle that landed on the Moon with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr.