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TIL that China spends more on internal security than on the military.

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Bg7wx TIL When President Macias of Equatorial Guinea was overthrown in 1979, the army couldn’t find him. He was discovered 2 weeks later by a villager, wandering through the Jungle, alone and delirious with the entire country’s foreign currency reserves in 2 suitcases.
8YKV TIL That a guinea pig named Randy broke into a female enclosure and impregnated over 100 female guinea pigs.
Q0bE TIL : The Movie Wargames (1983) coined the term ‘Firewall’ , ’“war dialing”, and “War Driving”
VBO5Z TIL that in 1856 the U.S army bought camels, and in 1862 the confederate army captured "Douglas the camel", he served a year before he was shot, or most likely eaten.
X0Lb6 TIL Dexter Holland of The Offspring published scientific findings in PLoS One in 2013