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TIL in 1982 the British navy mistook three whales for enemy submarines in the Falkland War and killed them with torpedos and an attack helicopter

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mxYZR For his Lux Noctis series, Reuben Wu programmed a light-bearing drone (a 3DR Solo UAV carrying a Fiilex AL250 light) to follow specific paths around his subjects as he photographed them using long exposures. The results are a set of UFO-friendly vistas that feature monumental scenery illuminated in totally unnatural ways – like this shot of a rocky crest lit from above by a sci-fi halo.
X0a8k TIL that Guns N' Roses is the result of a merger between two bands: L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose.
WELY TIL George Washington was surprised to discover the Chinese weren’t White
X8KR TIL That the reason the suffix ‘gate’ is tacked on to every scandal is because of William Safire, a speechwriter for Nixon and a political commentator at the NYT, who began affixing all scandals with -gate in the belief it would make his boss’s crimes seem less severe in the light of history
XEQkj TIL there is a Coral Trafficking Task Force here in The Florida Keys.