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TIL at least five Americans accidentally shot off their penises since 2010

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YjQv TIL Iowa and Montana will revoke your driver’s license if you can’t pay back student loans
N45N TIL that a floating British base was abandoned until a rogue DJ moved there. He declared the floating fortress the Principality of Sealand. He raised a flag, named himself Prince and his wife Princess. Sealand withstood court challenges, and remains an independent nation to this day.
XEmRk TIL that in Desert Storm in order to avoid trench warfare, the US put plows on Bradleys which drove along and filled 70 miles of defensive trenches obliterating thousands of Iraqi soldiers by burying them alive. Not a single American was killed during the attack.
VMoy8 TIL that there used to be rat fishing tournaments in an ally behind a saloon in Baltimore. Men would rig fishing poles with traps and bait, cast them down the ally and try and catch the largest rat.
4Xwgg TIL that during the fall of Saigon in April of 1975, the American radio station played "White Christmas" to signal American troops to immediately move to evacuation points