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TIL a Chinese destroyer sank because an officer dumped his girlfriend. She committed suicide, leading to him being discharged, so he decided to detonate the depth charges on the ship, causing it to sink at port and kill 134 sailors.
epyV4
TIL that "Killing baby Hitler" is an ethical and theoretical physics experiment. It explores the idea of time-traveling to assassinate infant Adolf Hitler, delving into ethical consequences and temporal paradoxes.
VBOop
TIL The United States once had a 36-year-old vice president back in 1857. John C. Breckinridge is still the only person under 40 to serve as president or vice president.
X0Vor
TIL that during Prohibition, many wineries would sell shipments of grape juice with instructions for home fermenting (which was perfectly legal). Here are some instructions from Lonz Winery in the Lake Erie region of Ohio.
691VW
TIL the song "A Real Hero" by College was written for Sully Sullenberger and his life-saving heroics in the "Miracle on the Hudson" where he saved all 155 souls on his flight after losing power in both engines from a bird-strike soon after takeoff.
woyk8
TIL Shogun Tokugawa leyasu decreed William Adams(first western samurai) was dead and that Miura Anjin, a samurai, was born. This action "freed" Adams to serve the Shogunate permanently, making Adams' wife in England a widow. Adams managed to send regular support payments to her after 1613.
OG4ag
TIL: The ZM-87 is one of only a few laser weapons ever produced but stopped production a result of the 1995 United Nations Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons ban.
W7Xoo
TIL that at the first appearance of basketball in the Olympics in 1936 (in Germany), it was played outdoors on lawn and dirt tennis courts. The final was held in a downpour which made it so muddy they couldn't dribble. Final score was 19-8 USA over Canada, top scorer had 8 points.
9w5lQ
TIL that in 2001, a 13-year-old Boy Scout named Cody Clawson went missing for over 18 hours near Yellowstone Park. Clawson resorted to using his belt buckle to signal to planes overhead. Eventually, he got a pilot’s attention - and that pilot was none other than Harrison Ford - who rescued Clawson.
R5Wk8
TIL Naomi Campbell appeared in the music video for "Is This Love?" by Bob Marley, she was just 7 years old at the time
x67ko
TIL the song "A Real Hero" by College is about Sully Sullenberger and the "Miracle on the Hudson".
nWyx7
TIL it's been observed that pilot fish can form sort of symbiotic relationships with sharks. In fact, if their shark is caught, the pilot fish will follow the boat that took it and become distressed when it can't find it or isn't near its "ghost" shark.