TIL at the Battle of Peleliu in the Pacific during WW2, of the 8 men awarded the Medal of Honor, 6 of them were for throwing themselves atop grenades to save nearby comrades (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Dodi Fayed, Princess Diana’s partner, who also tragically died in the car crash with her, was the cousin of assassinated Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL Dodi Fayed, Princess Diana’s partner, who also tragically died in the car crash with her, was the cousin of assassinated Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. They were both nephews of Saudi billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.
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TIL: Edison shocked elephants with AC to disprove Tesla, trying to prove that DC is safer (science.howstuffworks.com)
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TIL TIL: LaserDiscs were first marketed and sold in 1978 — and they were originally called DiscoVision! (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that despite homosexual activity being punishable by death in the country, Iran allows gender reassignment surgery, and performs more of them than any country except Thailand. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that in 1973, New York Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kelich traded families. (www.espn.com)
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TIL that those oxygen masks that come down inside airplanes are connected to individual “chemical oxygen generators” rather than a supply of oxygen gas (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL in 2019, the Netherlands became the first country to completely ban the Hells Angels biker gang. In July of 2022, the Supreme Court Of The Netherlands reaffirmed this ban and made it permanent. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL The United States was responsible for the majority of documented electoral interventions (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas" (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL a species of monkey known as the Lesula was discovered in 2007 (though already known by locals). It has a brilliantly blue bottom. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Mark Twain outlived his wife and all but one of his four children (en.wikipedia.org)
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Psychologists usually attribute belief in conspiracy theories to a number of psychopathological conditions such as paranoia, schizotypy, narcissism, and insecure attachment, (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the American Military’s C-5 Galaxy is nicknamed FRED by aircrews for “Fucking Ridiculous Economic (or) Environmental Disaster”. Due to the C-5 using large amounts of fuel, maintenance, reliability (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Pablo Escobar was worth 25 billion at the time he was a drug lord. (www.britannica.com)
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TIL that whales were saved from massacre when kerosene appeared (1860s) because, until then, whale oil was widely used as illumination fuel. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: Queen frontman Freddie Mercury left his London estate to his ex-girlfriend, who put it up for sale at $38 million (www.elledecor.com)
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TIL Yuri Gagarin returned to Earth during his historic first manned spaceflight by ejecting 6 km from the ground and parachuting down by himself. (airandspace.si.edu)
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TIL Chris Rock has a Non Verbal Learning Disorder (www.health.com)
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TIL that before becoming famous as a General in the Union Army, William T. Sherman was the first superintendent of Louisiana State Seminary, which went on to become Louisiana State University. (www.lib.lsu.edu)
TIL Arkansas will not allow a write in ballot unless the write in cannidate notifies every counties board of elections. (static.ark.org)
TIL that in Japan in 1980s, you could buy computer parts at cheap prices from shopping arcades and have them made into computers (www.youtube.com)
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TIL there is a world championships for playing the air guitar. The motto of the competition is "Make Air Not War". (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the Yom Kapur War happened during Ramadan. (en.wikipedia.org)
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