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TIL about the mobile offshore base (MOB) a proposed idea for a super-massive naval ship for performing military operations where regular land bases are not present.

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lOkV TIL Three Yemeni men sued NASA for invading Mars. They claim that they “inherited the planet from our ancestors 3,000 years ago”. They based their argument on mythologies of the Himyaritic and Sabaean civilizations that existed several thousand years B.C.
1Xdd TIL Seattle has a lower rate of child Polio vaccination than Rwanda.
aGKy TIL a man named Simon Bunce was arrested for buying child porn online, and lost his job and family over it, only to be revealed that someone in Indonesia hacked his credit card.
jN4JX TIL that the opening theme music of '2001: A Space Odyssey', the 1968 Kubrick film, is 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' (1896) by German composer Richard Strauss. I knew there was a lot of classical music in the film, but thought (for 50 years!) the main theme music was modern. Duh.
mx5xY TIL Walmart stocks up on strawberry Poptarts before a hurricane as it is a more popular prep item than bottled water.