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TIL - The US Military is purchasing Abrams tanks, 105MM Howitzers and everything in-between for ‘homeland defense missions, domestic emergency responses, and providing military support to civil authorities.’ Seriously… Read the procurement lists.

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R5DJl TIL that a Kyoto graduate researcher tracked and charted the romantic lives of the Kyoto Aquarium penguins. His chart showed relationships akin to soap operaesque drama.
R7bAw TIL that filmmaker James Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible on March 26, 2012. He is the first person to do this in a solo descent, and is only the third person to do so ever.
Wkb9B TIL about Phumdis which are a series of floating islands, exclusive to the Loktak lake in Manipur state, in northeastern India. It has the world’s only floating national park, named Keibul Lamjao National Park.
XDKP TIL Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in three days. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. He re-wrote it, once again in three days.
GQx4 TIL: Albert Einstein solved the Tea Leaf paradox where tea leaves in a cup of tea migrate to the center and bottom of the cup after being stirred rather than being forced to the edges of the cup