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

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P15mV TIL that Robert Stack of Unsolved Mysteries fame was a world record holding skeet shooter. Here he is talking about it at the Olympics with Arthur Ashe
OoJKX TIL There is a vegetarian crocodile in India which has been living only on a diet of rice and jaggery for the last 60 years
grO68 TIL Bagpipes were played in countries and cultures far before the famously known Scotland Highlanders, with history placing them in 1000BC Anatolia, as well as in Thrace, Northern Africa and throughout Asia.
ogER TIL “Rope a dope” is a boxing technique where you allow your opponent to punch you heavily against the ropes, tiring them out. The ropes absorb most of the impact of the punches.
xVDAw TIL Things keep trying to evolve into crab through a process called Carcinisation