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TIL that today is the 47th anniversary of Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty - 34 Americans were killed in the attack and another 174 were wounded. The ship, a $40-million dollar state-of-the-art signals intelligence platform was destroyed

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PYjJZ TIL the Japanese invaded Kiska, Alaska during WWII. This was the first time that the continental United States was occupied by a foreign power since the War of 1812.
Oo8K1 TIL of Iron Mike, who was targeted by 5 men wanting to collect life insurance by staging his accidental death. Unaware of the plot, Mike unknowingly survived numerous attempts including ingesting rat poison, getting hit by a car, and sleeping outside in -14 °F (-26 °C) weather while soaked in water.
WoXA TIL Pies were named in the Middle Ages after their most common ingredient, magpie.
JKJQ TIL that a book claiming that sunscreen, not the sun, is the number one cause of skin cancer, and that AIDS is “one of the greatest hoaxes and deceptions ever perpetrated on the American public” was #1 on the New York Times best-seller list and sold 5 million copies in the U.S.
BrwEW TIL Lemmings do not engage in mass suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating. This misconception was popularized by the Disney film White Wilderness, which shot many of the migration scenes on a large, snow-covered turntable in a studio. Photographers later pushed the lemmings off a cliff