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TIL Billy Joel has legally trademarked the term “Billy Joel”
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TIL of the USS Higbee, the first combat ship named after a woman who served in the Navy.
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TIL of the University of Sydney Pirates. In 1957, a group of 10 students dressed as pirates and boarded the U.S.S. Bennington. They then snuck to the bridge where they proclaimed, over the PA system of the ship, that "The U.S.S. Bennington has been captured by Sydney University pirates!"
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TIL there is an American cemetary hidden in northern France that contains the “dishonored dead;” dozens of US service members executed for war crimes committed during WWII
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TIL That a NSW court ruled that it was ok to refer to former Australian PM as a "Cunt" and that the term is not always offensive, even when used in public.
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TIL teleportation was used in Star Trek because the budget didn’t allow for expensive shots of spaceships landing on planets