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TIL wasps can be trained to detect bombs.

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j6BvX TIL actress Catherine Russell has only missed four performances (to attend siblings' weddings) as the lead in the off-Broadway play Perfect Crime since it opened in 1987. She holds the world record for most performances as the same character in a play with over 13,800.
P1peL TIL About a 2009 boating accident that Nick Schuyler survived while his three friends, including NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, died. (Without Hope, by Nick Schuyler and Jeré Longman, and Joe Carnahan said to be working on adaptation)
YkmZ TIL that Postal 2 is banned in New Zealand and owning it or distributing it is punishable by imprisonment
NpXE TIL A British regiment were so sick of hearing the French sing the same song on the battlefield that one morning they just decided to march towards the French barracks playing the song. The French thought they were receiving reinforcements and let them in.
v1D84 TIL that out of more than 100 billion people who have lived and died on earth, only 24 have the first hand experience of seeing full circle of earth from space.