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TIL - In 1999 Russia orchestrated a series of ‘false flag’ bombings as justification to invade Chechnya.

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4kXjw TIL about ring species, when a bunch of groups who live in a circle or ring can crossbreed with another group next to them, except for the two end points of the ring, whose species cannot cross breed due to being too distant.
6EEvm TIL that during WW2 Boeing had a huge hidden factory camouflaged with a fake town on its roof.
NY8J TIL that gun laws in Japan are so strict that even when a police officer killed himself with one he was still charged.
Y7JOB TIL Sylvester Stallone met Chuck Wepner, the real-life inspiration for Rocky (1976), while the latter was an inmate at the prison where the Stallone film Lock Out was shot.
GWGQ TIL that Jack Daniel’s last words were, “One more drink, please”