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TIL In WW2, US codebreakers could not decipher the Japanese code “AF” but suspected it was Midway, so the base there sent an uncoded message about a water supply problem. The US then caught a Japanese message that AF had water problems, allowing the US pacific fleet to immediately prepare for battle

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epMpk TIL that the birds we call Penguins today are not actually penguins at all but another species of bird that was named after them because of their looks and their are no true penguins alive today.
Y770v TIL of Dialysis at Sea Cruises: A cruise specially for kidney failure patients and their family who require regular hemodialysis to survive.
Vxg4 TIL the word “barbarian” originally referred to people who don’t speak Greek, because the Greeks thought people who spoke a foreign tongue sounded like they were saying “bar bar bar” all the time.
06GN TIL Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin only met one time, in which Joplin ended up smashing a bottle of whiskey on Morrison’s head after growing angry over his suggestive behavior toward her. Morrison was only more attracted to Joplin afterward and pursued her for weeks.
G97g TIL High-ranking Viking funerals involved getting a slave girl drunk, screwed by numerous men, restrained, strangled, then stabbed through the ribs before being burned with the corpse.