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TIL The feeling of people that children “these days” are spoiled can be dated all the back to at least Socrates

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Jk1Q TIL In 1963, Donald Currey cut down a tree to retrieve his drill bit after it got stuck when he was trying to core it to study climate effects. After studying the core of the tree, he found that he’d just cut down the oldest tree (at least 4862 years old) found to date.
em6L TIL that a transparent variant of Coke was specially manufactured for a Soviet marshal who didn’t want to be seen drinking an American imperialist beverage in public
N7D9N TIL in 1992, a SEAL team performing reconnaissance for the Somalia invasion was ambushed by over 400 journalists camped out on the Mogadishu coastline. Lights from the flashing cameras nearly caused a devastating wave of supressing fire from Navy vessels.
A854 TIL: The 15 biggest container ships pollute the air more than all 750 million cars combined
KYrOB TIL I learned you can make pretty significant money by reporting SEC Violations