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TIL That the term Peeping Tom came from the story of Lady Godiva since he was the only person to look at her during her naked ride through Coventry

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0dRW5 TIL During WW2, Chinese forces opened the dikes on the Yellow River to slow the Japanese army. This resulted in an estimated 400,000 to 800,000 drownings and displaced millions. The course of the Yellow River moved several hundred kilometers.
691k7 TIL that despite Rupert Murdoch's large media attention, media billionaire David Thomson, who owns all of Reuters, is over three times as wealthy ($61B). Despite this, he's only given a single substantive interview, ever.
4j5 TIL that strawberries aren’t actually berries, but bananas, avocados, pumpkins and watermelons are.
wYXE TIL that Leonardo Decaprio was all lined up to play Patrick Bateman in American Psycho but the author decided he was too young last minute.
Yp6Zd TIL The atomic-bomb-carrying 509th Composite Group named many of their planes after their special mission: Strange Cargo, Up An' Atom, Necessary Evil, Some Punkins. They also had special tail markings but it was replaced for operational security reasons. Their famous nose art was mostly added after.