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TIL that Termites can distinguish between load bearing and non-load bearing timber.

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6a7Y TIL North Korea built a fake village with empty buildings lit by automatic timers in an effort to lure South Koreans to defect across the border.
eEV5 TIL during the shooting of The Blues Brothers, cocaine was included as part of the movie’s budget.
5Yykn TIL that one of the principle deniers of the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979 (the British Academic Malcom Caldwell) was (almost certainly) killed by the Khmer Rouge (probably under the orders of Pol Pot) shortly after interviewing Brother Number One on Dec. 22 1978.
oo7A TIL that the NFL moved the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona because they refuse to make Martin Luther King day an official state holiday
60XJ TIL that in order to keep the project a secret, the British army used the innocuous name “mobile water carriers” for a motorized weapons project - which is the reason we call them “tanks”.