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TIL That the United States Army is officially designated as a terrorist organization by the Iranian government.

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BO8y TIL in 1994 a 74 year old man unable to get a driver’s license drove 240 miles on a 1966 John Deere lawnmower to visit his brother who recently had a stroke. At a top speed of 5 mph, the journey took 6 weeks.
x6e60 TIL the estimated odds of a structure in Tornado Alley taking a direct hit from a tornado is 5,000 to 1
690kZ TIL In January 1944 the Australian 9th Division found the Japanese 20th Division’s entire cryptographic library in New Guinea. The codes were buried in a steel trunk during a retreat and found by engineers looking for mines. This find lead to around 36,000 messages being decrypted in March alone.
WgRo TIL that Halliburton was forced to pay only $200,000 in fines following the firm’s willful destruction of incriminating evidence relating to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
x684w TIL about Virginia Hall, an American who worked for France and the UK to spy and sabotage against the nazis in WWII. She escaped France by walking over a 7,500 ft pass in the Pyrenees to Spain, with a prosthetic leg