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TIL There is an inn on the Canadian American border that encourages guests to spot illegal trespassers by supplying them with night vision goggles

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8aQG8 TIL about "Hemp for Victory" - A film made by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture to promote farmers growing Cannabis Sativa for WWII. It's existence was denied by the US Govt until VHS copied were eventually sourced.
Yp6Rv TIL the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi were based on the Vietcong guerillas who faced a more technologically advanced foe but originally the events on Endor were to be set on the Wookie home planet. It was changed because Wookies had become technologically skilled over the evolution of the series.
LQXdp TIL A standard outcome measure used by doctors to measure chronic rhonosinusitis is the Sino-nasal outcome test, or SNOT.
PY5dZ TIL that the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was arrested in part because of his use of the phrase "You can't eat your cake and have it, too." The odd phrasing showed up in both his manifesto and his personal letters.
4kEYg TIL that a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb killed 6 civilians in Oregon on May 5th, 1945.