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TIL that Teargas, both pepper-spray and CS gas, are listed as chemical weapons and their use by the military is considered a war crime.

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LQx7V TIL During WW2 the nazis sent a fleet to capture Oslo, as well as The King and the government. Little did they know, the Oslofjord contained a hidden torpedo base.
xV6W0 TIL That, left unchecked, an unspayed rabbit and her intact female descendants can produce more than 1300 offspring in a year. Over the course of five years this number balloons exponentially to more than 94 million!
Lykr TIL Icelanders can easily read old norse, dead language that was spoken in scandinavia 1000 years ago because written Icelandic has changed so little.
b9aZE TIL that the Harlem Hell fighters a. African American unit during WW1 served more time in combat than any other American unit at 191 days in total
P8WL TIL that Martin Scorsese recreated 19th-century New York on the lot of Cinecitta studios in Rome. When George Lucas visited the massive set, he reportedly turned to Martin Scorsese and said “Sets like that can be done with computers now.”