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TIL Kaitlin Olson was accidentally waterboarded for real while filming the season 4 IASIP episode, "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis"

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Br6kK TIL of the Okapi, a cousin of the giraffe, with stripes like a zebra on its hind legs and scent glands on the bottom of its feet to track other neighboring okapi.
gZBA TIL The three highest-paid people in the Pentagon are football coaches
5JMD TIL Russia trained and deployed about 40,000 anti tank dogs in WW2. The dogs were loaded up with explosives and trained to run under tanks where they would be detonated. Many dogs got scared, returned to their own trenches, and killed their Russian trainers.
yGmX TIL they didn’t know how strong the blast of the first prototype of the atomic bomb before detonating it in the New Mexico desert. They even had pre-prepared press releases for every event from ‘loud noise’ to 'among the dead were’.
7xJM TIL During the first Gulf War the United States used bulldozers in an assault on entrenched Iraqi soldiers, burying between 80-250 people alive.