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TIL The United States used chemical weapons on the Vietnam War. It is estimated that today up to 1 million people are disabled or have health problems as a result of contamination

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mM0Y TIL The soviet military trained dogs strapped with explosives to conduct kamikaze-style attacks on enemy tanks. the concept backfired horribly, with scared dogs often running back to their trainers…killing them
awVMJ TIL that the last fatal shark attack in the UK happened on the 1st of August 1956. A man by the name of Richard Kirby was killed by a shark whilst trying to kill a shark with explosives.
QNdJM TIL: Carl Sagan originally wanted to include the Beatles' Here Comes the Sun on the record on the spacecraft Voyager but the record company EMI declined
5Yxr TIL that the filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy pumped roughly $200,000,000 into the New Zealand economy.
1xb7 TIL: Mark Twain once said, “ the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Biblelying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn’t anger me.”