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TIL that the daily rum ration given to sailors in the Royal Navy was only stopped in 1970.

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8Pga TIL that dolphin squeaks show the same 45 degree pattern as any other written language when the words are graphed out
JY7xV TIL that after Pearl Harbor three men were trapped deep in the USS West Virginia for 16 days which they marked on the wall of the storeroom they had found shelter in. Soldiers were unable to reach them and no one wanted guard duty near the ship due to the incessant banging of the trapped survivors.
xO1 TIL That when asked, Former US President Bill Clinton was able to answer 3 out of 3 questions correct about “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”
0Qxy TIL that Martin Luther, the great German Reformation leader, in 1543, wrote a 65,000 word treatise called “On The Jews And Their Lies” in which he argued that jews should be shown no mercy or kindness, and that “these poisonous worms” should be expelled for all time.
7GwX TIL: Aquaman’s archnemesis is autistic