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TIL The story of Jeronimus Cornelisz : a litteral sociopath took advantage of a mutiny and a shipwreck in 1629 to establish a brutal dictatorship on a desert island, leading to the murder of 124 surviving men, women and children.

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kJYR1 TIL Winston Churchill opposed the American use of napalm during the Korean war but still allowed Americans to publish claims of British support for American napalm attacks.
ANN7B TIL the iconic Australian hat is bent up on one side to allow the armed forces maneuver rifles on and off their shoulders without hitting the brim.
9YYwm TIL raw unfiltered honey can be almost as pungent as cheese.
9YVQG TIL that the distinctive nose of the Shinkansen 500 bullet train prevents sonic booms whenever it exits a tunnel and was discovered when scientists studied the shape of a kingfisher's beak to learn how it hit the water at high speed
gM0J9 TIL: Niels Bohr didn't actually have a beer pipeline installed in the house gifted to him by Carlsberg. The story was invented by an overly enthusiastic science professor in England with a YouTube show and then spread by journalists who didn't fact check the story for accuracy.