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TIL that the Hawaiian battle of Kuamo’o featured weapons ranging from slings and stones to a swivel gun mounted on the platform of a double canoe.

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D1vmY TIL that a Russian Defector (GRU officer Stanislav Lunev) has alleged that small nuclear weapons have been secretly pre-positioned in the U.S. to be used for sabotage by Russia′s agents in the event of a nuclear war.
9YnGm TIL of the Yottabyte, the largest known multiple of byte, 1 YB = 10008bytes = 1024bytes = 1000000000000000000000000bytes = 1000 zettabytes = 1 trillion terabytes. Since the radius of Holmium is 233 pm, an atomic memory device could store one yottabyte in an area roughly the size of a nickel.
xVj70 TIL that on the Mississippi River in the 1850s, the word "two" was often pronounced "twain." When leadsmen measured a depth of two fathoms, they shouted "mark twain!" The American writer Mark Twain, a former river pilot from Missouri, got his pen name from this phrase.
jArM TIL Ore trains in Sweden traveling down to the coast generate five times the amount of electricity they use, powering nearby towns and the return trip for other trains.
1a7lP TIL after South Park premiered in 1997, the number of households with Comedy Central jumped from 9.1 million, to a staggering 50 million by 1998.