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TIL during WW2 US military drove (then)millions of dollars worth of excess vehicles and equipment off the shore of Vanuatu, to make more room for returning troops

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W7YBN TIL that early in Edgar Allen Poe's writing career, he published an essay exposing a fake chess-playing automaton that was actually operated by a chess master hidden inside. The essay employs a method of deduction called 'ratiocination' which is used by C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's fictional detective.
GADRJ TIL In 1995, 23 states had passed congressional term limits, limiting the amount of time their congressman can serve in office.
md8p TIL the “bus stop” sign is painted by hand without using a lettered stencil. Yet the uniformity!
wJD1 TIL that Agent Scully was immortal by the end of the ‘X-Files’ series.
aXy9 TIL that Lord Collingwood, Nelson’s second in command at the Battle of Trafalgar, would carry a pocket full of acorns on walks in the countryside, planting them as he went so the ‘Navy would never want for oaks to build the fighting ships upon which the country’s safety depended.’