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TIL in 1970, two young merchant seamen led the only mutiny on a US ship in the last century. The SS Columbia Eagle was delivering napalm bombs to Vietnam

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KOb4G TIL that voles comfort each other when mistreated. Also, the comforting voles have the same level of stress hormone of the mistreated one, suggesting that voles are capable of empathy
rNODw TIL about James Dallas Egbert III - a 16-year old college student at MSU who experienced an episode of self-harm and disappeared for several days. A family-retained private investigator believed Dungeons & Dragons was responsible, & began a nationwide panic sweeping both country & gaming industry.
b6n9N TIL that Maine has a yearly Moose Lottery to determine who can hunt Moose that season
RZna TIL that facts don’t win arguments because of something called the ‘backfire effect’ in which “corrections actually increase misperceptions among the group in question.” Since your friend knows you and your opinions well, he or she does not view you as an all-knowing source of information.
XB96 TIL A letter was sent to Martin Luther King, sounding as if coming from a disappointed admirer, urging King to kill himself or risk evidence of adultery being leaked. King believed it was from the FBI. The Senate’s Church Committee on intelligence overreach confirmed King’s suspicion.