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TIL Frederic John Walker aka Johnnie Walker was the most successful anti-submarine warfare commander during WWII credited with 17 U boats destroyed. Walker's last duty was protecting the fleet from U-boats during the Normandy landing before his natural death attributed to overwork and exhaustion.

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Me0V8 Today I learned camels originated in North America, but went extinct here along with mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers, and horses, coinciding with the migration of humans from Asia.
JlmQ TIL an area of Canada nearly twice the size of Texas was almost renamed “Bob” after politicians in the Northwest Territories asked residents to propose a new name. The campaign to name the territory Bob began as a prank, but thousands supported it. Politicians and Aboriginal leaders were not amused
W7jD8 TIL The location of the first emporer of China's tomb is known but remains unexcavated, in part, due to fears it contains vast quantities of mercury
NXAG6 TIL of the Iffland-Ring, a ring awarded to the most significant actor of the German-speaking theatre according to its previous owner, who pass on the ring by will. It was also considered cursed when, in 1954, Albert Bassermann's candidates all died shortly after being nominated as the recipient.
bmE7 TIL That clownfish are ‘sequential hermaphrodites’, meaning that if Finding Nemo were more accurate, Nemo’s father would’ve turned into his mother after the real mother died, Nemo would’ve become the new reproducing male, “and they would raise little incestuous Nemos together.”