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TIL all the poop generated on the US Navy’s newest aircraft carrier will be vaporized by plasma.

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xVyb1 TIL that in Japan there are trains that bark like dogs to scare deer that come to lick the rails to get iron
e0oJn TIL: The Bay View Massacre occurred in 1886 when workers demanded an 8-hour workday. When the workers shut down the town, the Governor of Wisconsin gave the National Guard orders to shoot-to-kill. When the Guard Captain got the orders, he picked a man out of the crowd and had him shot.
AD40g TIL Breakdancing will be a medal event at the Paris 2024 Olympics
d89x7 TIL about Wank Week, a British documentary series dedicated to increasing public awareness and dispelling any taboos surrounding masturbation. A press release even promised that it would reveal "if the only things allowed to be stiff in Britain are upper lips". It was, unsurprisingly, canceled.
xV0g1 TIL Three-quarters of U.S. teens and adults are deficient in vitamin D, the so-called "sunshine vitamin" whose deficits are increasingly blamed for everything from cancer and heart disease to diabetes, according to new research.