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TIL: The US Army spent $5 billion on pixellated uniforms that did not provide adequate camouflage in any environment whatsoever.

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9vp6 TIL a man who was lost in the woods chopped down some power lines so that workers would have to come and rescue him.
MeO8V TIL the word “leopard” is a Greek compound of leon (“lion”) and pardos (“male panther”), as it was believed in antiquity leopards were hybrids of the two.
6EbV7 TIL that Gandhi left his Indian wife to have a homo-erotic relationship with German-Jewish bodybuilder named Hermann Kallenbach.
yV04M TIL that since 1938, a Finnish government agency has given parents a "maternity package" containing many useful items for babies for every newborn child
QJ9d9 TIL that in 2002 Keiko, the killer whale from Free Willy, was finally freed after over two decades in captivity. He died a year later, having become too dependent on humans to survive on his own.