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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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womR1 TIL In a single battle in a single day, one-quarter of the entire United States Army had been destroyed. It was the most decisive defeat in American history with 69% of soldiers killed and 97% casualties. It's known as St Clair's defeat and Major General St Clair resigned his commission afterwards.
OogO7 TIL there is an island in Ethiopia where Christian Ethiopians claim to have kept the Ark of Covenant for thousands of years. It is watched over by a single man with no name known as the "Guardian" and no woman are allowed on the island for fear of "stirring the passions" of the virgins on the island
m7DE TIL that an aerospace company was developing a solvent that would displace water for rust and corrosion prevention in nuclear missles. After 40 attempts, they finally found a liquid that worked, and named it Water Displacement #40, now know as WD-40
9wgGQ TIL In 1877, prospector Ed Schieffelin set out from an army post in Arizona heading for the Dragoon Mountains. The soldiers warned him he’d find nothing there but his own tombstone. When Schieffelin struck silver, he named his mine Tombstone.
l7EBK TIL during visit to a state built flat in communist Poland Picasso spontaneously drew a painting on a wall of some random folks living room It was painted over in 1953 by a couple who lived there and couldn’t handle hundreds of strangers wanting to come in and stare at their wall.