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TIL that after the sinking a british U-boat during WWII, Herbert Schultze sent radio message “cq - cq- cq - transmit to Winston Churchill. I have sunk the British steamer Firby. Posit 59.40 North and 13.50 West. Save the crew, if you please. German U-boat”. This made Schultze famous in Germany & UK.

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wreo TIL that Ratko Mladić, or the “Butcher of Bosnia”, was most likely highly influenced by the apparent ‘suicide’ of his daughter in committing the “worst crime on European soil since the WWII”: the Srebrenica Massacre where 8,400 people died
epDk TIL that a moment is 90 seconds.
nWvA7 TIL the official crown of the Prince of Wales was made using a gold-plated ping-pong ball as the central orb
XnGE TIL: Sony installed rootkits through millions of CDs, and their president knew but said people shouldn’t care about it.
KYGEB TIL about Dan Rather, a journalist, saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in 1961. He created the first radar weather report, which helped initiate the evacuation of 350,000 people.