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TIL Winston Churchill’s Historic “Fight Them on the Beaches” Speech Wasn’t Heard by the Public Until After WWII

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VMkXm TIL of William Rankin, a fighter pilot who survived ejecting into a thunderstorm. He encountered very low temperature, frostbite, massive wind and lightning, severe decompression, and nearly drowned from breathing in rain water. Overall, he was in the cloud for more than 40 minutes.
mdwx TIL That Jordan Belfort’s (the Wolf of Wall Street) Private Investigator played himself in the 2013 film
jN6RR TIL that a Great Storm devastated England in 1703. The damage included more than 400 destroyed windmills; in some the sails turned so fast that the friction caused the wooden wheels to overheat and catch fire, burning them down.
n66G TIL that ramen, a notorious “poor person” food, was invented by a very wealthy person. He was also said to eat “unhealthy” chicken ramen every single day since its invention until he died (at age 96, 17 years above the average male Taiwanese lifespan) His 105th birthday is today.
NXpwN TIL Cava is a sparkling wine uniquely from Spain the same way Champagne comes from France and Prosecco from Italy