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TIL: Poland Uses Clams To Control Its Water Supply
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TIL That after a Colonel called his men “animals” for cutting off the heads of Japanese dead and impaling them on poles, one soldier responded “That’s right Colonel, we are animals. We live like animals, we eat and are treated like animals–what the fuck do you expect?”
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TIL that US Pres. Theodore Roosevelt's mother and wife died on the same day. He drew a large X in his diary and wrote simply, "the light has gone out of my life."
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TIL : That Hydro-Quebec built the biggest vertical axle wind-turbine in the world! With it's 360ft height (110m), "Éole" was producing 4MW (enough to create power for more than 800 houses). Éole is no longer in operation since 1993 (1988-1993) due to some issue with the bearing olding it's 90+ tons
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TIL Bette Midler sued Ford Motor Co in the 1980s for impersonating her voice in a commercial when she refused to take part despite the copyright owner’s consent. This resulted in a new legal precedent that singers’ voices are protected from commercial impersonation.
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TIL that KFC once tried to expand into new core competencies with KRB, Kentucky Roast Beef