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TIL: Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin shared a tortoise

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E1wnd TIL that geysers are quite rare natural phenomena on Earth, and apart from the famous Yellowstone National Park, the United States also once had 2 more significant geyser fields in Nevada that were each destroyed by geothermal electricity companies in the 1960s and 80s.
lRwV TIL that during WW2 Peru deported its entire Japanese ethnic population to the US to live in the Camps
aw5a0 TIL North Korea adopted color television broadcasts (1974) 6 years before South Korea (1980) despite the latter already producing color TV sets for export.
Brkxd TIL we only know about MKUltra because while the CIA was trying to destroy all the files on it due to paranoia around Watergate, some of them were sent to the wrong office and not destroyed
l7jG5 TIL the B-52D Stratofortress is the largest aircraft in history to score an air-to-air kill. Two North Vietnamese MiG-21s were shot down by B-52 tail gunners during Operation Linebacker II in December 1972.