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TIL that Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden's height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden's corpse

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aMdL TIL that a lake in Kazakhstan was created using a nuclear weapon and has decayed to the point that people can swim in it
pYd5O TIL the color orange is named after the fruit. Before that in Europe the color was referred to as red-yelllow
rNO7W Today I learned about Bazoul in Burkina Faso, where crocodiles are revered and played with by local children
R01Q TIL British Airways edited out the cameo of rival Richard Branson and obscured the tail-fin of one of Branson’s Virgin Atlantic planes, in the in-flight version of the James Bond flick Casino Royale.
x6PDB TIL about the women-are-wonderful effect which is the phenomenon found in psychological and sociological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with women when compared to men