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TIL about “The Miracle Ship” in World War 2. Weeks after surviving Pearl Harbor, a Japanese torpedo blew it’s bow off. Presumed dead by the US, the few survivors built a bow out of bamboo. Never designed to fight, it won 60 battle stars and was the 4th most decorated battle ship in US History.

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b6Xl4 TIL Director Robert Altman conceived of the idea for 3 Women (1977) while his wife was being treated in a hospital.he had a dream in which he was directing a film starring Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek in.He woke up mid-dream, jotted notes on a pad,and went back to sleep, receiving more details.
JL4l TIL that in ancient Rome, one of the most common cooking ingredients was called “laser”, from the silphium plant. It does not exist today: it was so delicious that it was harvested to extinction from its natural habitat in what is now Libya. We think that it probably tasted something like garlic.
0Vv5 TIL: Any dolphins or whales that are caught within 3 miles of the UK are considered the personal property of Queen Elizabeth
ame9 TIL Catapults were at times used to fling infected corpses towards defending garrisons back in the middle ages. Causing diseases and plagues, this was the Biological warfare of the time.
R5Me7 TIL Ancient Human populations living in the Indian subcontinent had a taller average height than modern humans living in the wealthiest developed countries