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TIL during WW2, the US Navy had two freshwater aircraft carriers on the Great Lakes to train its pilots

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WkarB TIL that the 12-story Soviet embassy in Indonesia was torn down in December 1990 (a year before its dissolution) due to national security concern over a mall (Plaza Indonesia) built near the building. Always thought that the current Russian embassy was also the one used by the Soviet Union.
nWDld TIL Portugal fought a 13-year Colonial War to keep its African colonies long after the rest of Europe had given up theirs. Eventually the military got sick of dying in a pointless war, overthrew the dictatorship and installed a democracy
6ElOY TIL there was a sign language developed in the Rennell Island by a deaf person living there, that was only used by him and his acquaintances and disappeared when he died.
Bg7NK TIL that the English artist L. S. Lowry (1887–1976), famous for his paintings depicting industrial scenes in England's North West, holds the record for the most British honours rejected, declining them on five occasions, including a knighthood in 1968.
gMQe4 TIL I am a superhuman because I don't molest kids.