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TIL that following the D-Day invasion the USS Texas intentionally flooded part of itself to allow the ships guns to fire further inland

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D1ev TIL before syphilis had a name, it had been called the “French disease” in Italy, Poland and Germany; the “Italian disease” in France; the “Spanish disease” in the Netherlands; the “Polish disease” in Russia; the “Christian disease” in Turkey; and the “British Disease” in Tahiti.
5RBr TIL that a man served 5 months in Rikers Island Prison because no one told him his bail was only $2.00.
VM0Zp TIL every member of Congress gets a free porno magazine every month, since 1983.
QNLQ9 TIL British flatpack furniture retailer MFI was so popular, it was stated that "one in three Sunday lunches was made in their kitchens and 60% of children were conceived in an MFI bedroom." The company went bankrupt in 2008.
p15p TIL: Trading Places’ Was Originally Written for Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor