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TIL The American government (Among others) tried to deliver mail via missiles

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oRVa7 TIL that a Physics paper called “Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc3 He” was co-authored by F.D.C. Willard - a Siamese cat named Chester.
4XJXb TIL the most humane and least painful way to kill a whale is by strapping a bomb to it's head, because everything else would be to slow and painful, as they are so massive.
oB6nE TIL Hyenas are genetically closer to cats than dogs
epEp4 TIL that during a power outage in 1994, LA residents made numerous calls to 911 reporting strange silver clouds hovering in the sky. They were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
p16p TIL the FBI tried to intimidate the publishers of MAD magazine for making fun of the FBI and Hoover