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TIL that in 1985 the French intelligence service bombed a ship docked in New Zealand to prevent it from protesting French nuclear testing.

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a8pAN TIL undelivered letters from 313AD were discovered in the ruins of a NW Chinese watchtower—one is from a desperate Sogdian (ancient central Asian people) woman named Miwnay, addressed to her husband who brought her to China & left. She & her daughter, now poor, then became servants in a Chinese home
p8xKA TIL that vehicle diesel fuel and home heating oil are the same thing. In many markets they are the same product sold out of the same truck.
7e1L TIL that Devin Gaines earned 5 bachelor degrees with honors simultaneously at the University of Connecticut, averaging 24 credits/semester and 3 hrs of sleep/night. He drowned in 2007 because he didnt know how to swim.
1BrW TIL one in five men between the ages of 25 and 34 are living with their parents.
NmNQ TIL To lose 63 pounds for his role in The Machinist, Christian Bale’s daily diet consisted of one can of tuna fish, and/or one apple per day, black coffee, and water.