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TIL In Belarus, a one-armed man was arrested for clapping

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kR0e TIL US Ensign Chester Nimitz was court-martialed and reprimanded for grounding a destroyer in 1908. He would become Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet during WWII, and Chief of Naval Operations after the war.
en5L TIL that in September of 2010, the United Nations appointed official ambassador to extraterrestrials in they case they would ever make contact with Earth
kEJE TIL of Margaret Abbott, a woman who competed in and won a golf tournament in Paris. After her death, it was discovered that this tournament was part of the poorly-organized 1900 Olympics. She never knew she was an Olympian.
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