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TIL About ‘The Misty Experiment’ The Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

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gAQW TIL penguins were found in the arctic, but only from 1936-1949. They were introduced to replace the great auk, which had been hunted to extinction. The penguins survived the conditions well, but were also hunted to extinction. One was beaten to death by a local woman, whom mistook it for a demon.
e0Gp4 TIL despite being in DC, the seal of Georgetown University says "Georgetown College on the Banks of the Potomac in Maryland" as the university was founded in 1789, 12 years before it became part of DC.
N7bEE TIL that coconuts transported themselves around the world by foating through the sea. This one reason (along with human interferance) that coconuts are so widespread worldwide. So, yes, coconuts do migrate.
VxN8 TIL Hot Pockets was originally released under the name “Chunk Stuffers”
9l1Q TIL: The Lord of the Rings trilogy made ‘horrendous losses’ despite being huge box office success