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TIL that Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, was secretly funded by the US Navy which wanted him to find their two sunken nuclear submarines first

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d8RN9 TIL when IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands died, the Iranian government renamed Winston Churchill Boulevard, the location of the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Tehran, to Bobby Sands Street, prompting the embassy to move its entrance to avoid using Bobby Sands Street on its letterhead.
7M7p TIL John Clem became the youngest sergeant in US history when he was 12, shot a confederate colonel with a miniature musket after he demanded his surrender, and was the last civil war veteran on active duty in 1915.
x0rb TIL McDonald’s is set to have fewer locations next year for first time ever
78knr TIL that some people only feel sexually attracted to someone after developing a close or strong emotional bond with them. The term for this is demisexuality
gE8A TIL that the first person killed on September 11th was an Israeli special operations veteran and MIT graduate student who immediately attempted to stop the hijacking of Flight 11.