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TIL Indian Army's PARA Special Forces has "Glass eating Ritual" on completing Training!

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e0bK4 TIL The Air Force operates a giant facility in Florida that can simulate any weather condition on earth. They use it to test the effects of climate on equipment.
Z8jZ4 TIL That today in 1954 for 5 minutes, thousands of baby frogs fell from the sky after being picked up by a tornado and landed in Sutton park in Birmingham.
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4XAZJ TIL of Twitch Plays Pokemon. A social experiment where internet users collaborated to beat Pokemon Red in just over 16 days. Generally regarded as a classic internet moment, the event holds the world record for "the most participants on a single-player online videogame" with 1,165,140.