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TIL that the lower ranks of the US Navy can be sentenced to rations of bread and water for not more than 3 days as punishment for misconduct

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Wk1QB TIL there is a plane that flies above Los Angeles every single day releasing thousands of sterile fruit flies from 2,000ft in the air to combat the invasive Mediterranean Fruit Fly. Up to 125,000 flies per square mile are released each week in what’s called “biological birth control”
0d1JM TIL in 1831 four countries claimed a new island in the Mediterranean that disappeared again only six months later
kDDm TIL when Stalin’s first son was captured, Hitler offered to trade him for Friedrich Paulus, a field marshal who led the 6th army into Stalingrad. When Stalin heard of this, he allegedly said, “I will not trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant.”
xVQW5 TIL the Dilbert comic ran a story-line that was published around Easter about a new hire named Jesus, pronounced 'hey-soos', who was fired but returned three days later.
DYoY TIL Its not actually true that the US space program spent millions on developing a pen that worked in space, whereas the Russians just used a pencil. They both used pencils at first, but the shavings and chipped graphite floating around were harmful to the astronauts and computers