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TIL that after WWI, the Australian military started “The Great Emu War” where they tried to cull emus with machine guns… and the emus mostly won.

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wJ4P TIL in 2012 Germany agreed to provide compensation to a new category of Nazi victims — 80,000 Jews who fled ahead of the advancing German army and eventually resettled in the former Soviet Union. As of 2012, Germany has paid $89 billion in compensation overall for Nazi crimes since 1952.
56Y9 TIL Hugh Thompson (who saved numerous Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai massacre) suffered from PTSD, alcoholism, divorce, and severe nightmare disorder as a result of testifying against those responsible for the massacre.
16aOX TIL the boom mic was invented by director Dorothy Arzner on the set of a 1929 film about drunk college coeds called The Wild Party, starring Clara Bow.
6d6Z TIL Astronomers discovered a planet which rains glass sideways, giving it a blue hue.
x6Bwk TIL that BBC News is available in Pidgin English