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TIL The church of Scientology once tried to take over a city in Florida

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Z8W1Y TIL 10 US military installations are named after Confederate soldiers, including Fort Benning, Fort Bragg, & Fort Lee.
EgYDP TIL how the United States declared the end of WWII, on September 2, 1945. General Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan's formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri, which was anchored in Tokyo Bay with a fleet of almost 250 Allied vessels.
x60v0 TIL about Capt. Ben Salomon, a US Army dentist who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for defending wounded soldiers from hundreds of Japanese attackers at the Battle of Saipan (1944)
Zpd8Q Today I learned that a man can survive two atomic bombs in a gap of two days and still live till the age of 93 - Tatsuo Yamaguchi.
wLNDE TIL to call someone a monitor lizard in thailand is one of the worst insults or curses in the thai language. so much that people have been killed over it and a politician who called protesters this made front page news. it's so offensive its basically banned in broadcast media.