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TIL about the Military Entertainment Complex - a branch of the DoD that consults on movies and provides accurate equipment

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oodK TIL that www.milk.com is not owned by anyone in the dairy industry and is just one man posting random links and bits of prose. He refuses to sell it for less than $10000000
WBd8 TIL the Mayor of Lake Worth, FL swam across the Lake Worth Lagoon in 1998 to raise awareness of how dirty it had become. After completing the swim, he spent three days in the hospital and nearly died.
Wmdd TIL that patients of doctors who graduated from international medical schools had significantly lower mortality rates than patients cared for by doctors who graduated from U.S. medical schools
yYJ TIL during WW2 US military drove (then)millions of dollars worth of excess vehicles and equipment off the shore of Vanuatu, to make more room for returning troops
ADP74 TIL that scientists successfully cloned an extinct goat back to life, but it died very shortly due to breathing problems.