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TIL GDP is a very good yardstick for measuring success in war.

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E18RP TIL about the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, a small group that broke into an FBI field office and stole documents that revealed the FBI’s spying on and infiltration of left-wing organizations across the US.
epd54 TIL that chinstrap penguins take more than 10,000 micro-naps a day, lasting an average of 4 seconds, for a total of more than 11 hours of daily sleep.
eprJ4 TIL the world’s largest cockroach is named megaloblotta longipennis and can measure nearly 4 inches in length.
ANxLn TIL in 1924 French colonists deliberately introduced an insect to Madagascar in order to kill off plants which native pastoralists used as food and animal feed - leading to a famine which killed hundreds and displaced thousands, but cleared land and made labor available for French sugar plantations
GYaxG TIL that there was a Slavonic sect whose members had a widespread worship of Napoleon, believing that Napoleon is still alive and hiding in Irkutsk, Russia, gathering an army to return and conquer the world