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TIL in 2013 wreckage of a German submarine was dicovered near Indonesia, including human bones and plates with Nazi insignia

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9w7YQ TIL that the U.S. Paid South Korea in a Mercenary-like Deal to Send Troops for the Vietnam War in Return For Billions in Aid and Lucrative Contracts that Funded its Rapid Industrial Expansion
R7LVw TIL that, when World War 2 began, the US had the 12th largest army (behind Brazil) and the 18th largest air force in the world. By summer 1944, we were building bombers at the rate of one per hour.
8eGB8 TIL ex-Dallas Cowboys’ coach Jimmy Johnson went to high school with Janis Joplin in Texas. Despite bullying her, his friends slept with her because she was “weird”
epBWn TIL the British Empire almost federalized into an Imperial Federation. Proposed as an alternative to colonialism, the idea even had the support of the then-prime minister, but lost its momentum because of the first world war.
xVpX0 TIL Doris Day turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an honorary Academy Award and Kennedy Center Honors Award because her intense fear of flying made it impossible to accept the awards in person.