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TIL that the US Navy had a warship named USS Ponce (bit of a different meaning in British English)

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VMV80 TIL the Black Death started in Hubei Province
Z1XY TIL The Soviets Dropped Cluster Bombs on Finland but Claimed they Were Humanitarian Food Drops. As a Result, The Finns Coined the Term “Molotov Bread Basket” to Describe These Bombs and then the Term “Molotov Cocktail” as “A Drink To Go With The Food”
GyRG TIL - There has only ever been one successful shoot-down of a F-117A stealth plane, in 1999 during the NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia, the Pilot ejected safely. Since then the US pilot and Serb that shot him down have become good friends.
VxVG TIL about the Old Man, a 30 foot tree stump that has been floating around vertically on Crater Lake for 130 years and scientists aren’t really sure why.
d8RWr TIL: Words in songs are called lyrics because in ancient Greece poems used to be accompanied by a lyre