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TIL “Puff the Magic Dragon” was a warplane in Vietnam. It could put a bullet in every square yard of a football field in under ten seconds

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5V5nk TIL Ancient Greek used to ostracize potential tyrants with a vote, essentially forcing them to leave the city
0wm75 TIL that fishers, a member of the weasel family, are one of the few predators that seek out and kill porcupines and have been documented routinely preying on lynxes, being the primary cause of lynx mortality in the wild.
9YXnQ TIL that the Haskalah, often termed Jewish Enlightenment was an intellectual movement among the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The Haskalah promoted rationalism, liberalism, freedom of thought and enquiry, and is largely perceived as the Jewish variant of the general Age of Enlightenment.
ZVvR TIL jellyfish make up up to 40% of the ocean’s biomass, and their combined swimming puts out a trillion watts of energy - as much as wind or tidal energy.
gr97A TIL that Loma Linda, CA is one of the five "Blue Zones", or areas in which people tend to live to 100 years old. This is generally believed to be because many of the residents are Seventh Day Adventists, who eat mostly plant based diets, get a lot of exercise, and drink mostly water.