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TIL in 1985 a man drowned at a pool party full of lifeguards that were celebrating that no one had drowned that season

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N7v01 TIL that during the Vietnam War, the West-German goverment send a hospital ship, the "Helgoland", on a humanitarian Mission to Vietnam as a compromise towards the US request for military aid. The "Helgoland" provided free medical treatment for civilians between 1966 and 1971.
5VJ5r TIL that in 1939, a member of the Swedish Parliament jokingly nominated Adolf Hitler for a Nobel Peace Prize, but the nomination was cancelled.
W7rWA TIL Hendiadys is a figure of speech, typically where a noun and adjective pair are replaced with two nouns joined by a conjunction. Shakespeare was fond of using hendiadys in his plays, for instance, in Macbeth: 'sound and fury' instead of 'furious sound'.
ON8X TIL The U.S. had 500,000 Purple Hearts manufactured in anticipation of the invasion of Japan. In 2003, there were still 120,000 of these medals in stock.
Oomma TIL that since 1956 the US Air Force trains falcons. They have 8 main falcons, Ace, Apollo, Cairo, Karena, Nova, Oblio, Zeus, and Ziva