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TIL about the 1905 Battle of Tsushima between Japanese and Russian steel battleships. The Japanese sunk 21 Russian warships and captured another 5, including the flagship. Only three Russian ships made it back to a Russian port

AJld TIL the Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because “there was no suitable living candidate.” This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
DQG0g TIL Will Ferrell and Adam McKay separated as producing partners because McKay cast John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss in the HBO series 'Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty' without telling Ferrell first, who had already cast in the role. Ferrell found out he'd been replaced directly from Reilly.
vPegK TIL When (Anheuser-Busch chairman) Gussie Busch purchased the St. Louis Cardinals, he attempted to name their ballpark "Budweiser Stadium" and was denied due to baseball's alcohol advertising rules. In response, he named it "Busch Stadium" and launched the first Busch branded beer two years later.
W7veX TIL Francis Bacon died of pneumonia he got after stuffing a fowl with snow to prove that the meat can be preserved frozen.
kOrQW TIL about Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish adventurer who convinced hundreds to invest their life savings in "Poyais", a fictional Central America territory that he claimed to rule as "Cazique". About 250 emigrated to the supposed country to find only untouched jungle. More than half of them died.