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TIL: UNTIL 2013, THE US NAVY SENT MESSAGES IN ALL CAPS

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PDLE TIL the Hollywood Walk of Fame star for Muhammad Ali is the only one that’s placed on a wall and not the ground, because Ali “did not want the name of Muhammad to be stepped on”
xV1xg TIL that Avalanche Airbags exist, and they’re used when people fall into an avalanche. They help people survive by “making them bigger” and so staying closer to the surface by the principle of inverse segregation
l7eL7 TIL early American colonists once "stood staring in disbelief at the quantities of fish." One man wrote "there was as great a supply of herring as there is water. In a word, it is unbelievable, indeed, indescribable, as also incomprehensible, what quantity is found there. One must behold oneself."
loOMa TIL There is over 3 million horses in Mongolia, which is larger than the total human population of Mongolia, with 2% of the world’s horse population living in Mongolia.
OGxb4 TIL that a Japanese pilot - Nobuo Fujita bombed the US mainland during WWII (the only foreign pilot to bomb the US Mainland) and was later invited back to where he gave his family's 400-year-old katana to the city in friendship.