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TIL: The Walt Disney Company is the second largest purchaser of explosive devices, right behind the U.S. Department of Defense.

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KOL9a TIL that 17% of parents choose a name for their baby on the day the baby is born.
aXey TIL that because of a feud on the set of Groundhog day the collaborative filmmaking duo of Bill Murray and Herold Ramis didn’t talk for 21 years. It wasn’t until a week before Ramis’s death that the two made up.
RXy6 TIL that China’s army holds annual training exercises against a ‘Blue Force’ equipped to resemble a NATO adversary like the United States. The Blue Force nearly always wins; in 2014, only one visiting brigade was able to defeat it at the cost of 50% casualties.
epWn TIL NorCal students are petitioning to add the prefix “Hella” as the highest SI measurement (i.e. The sun weighs 2.2 hellatons)
abeo TIL Korn had a song called “Y'all Want a Single” which was written in defiance towards their label requesting a radio friendly song to be made for their album. The song had nearly 100 expletives. It later became a single after their fans voted for it to become one on the band’s forum.