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TIL the U.S. Navy had a warship called the USS Gyatt. Commissioned in 1945, the ship was named after Edward Earl Gyatt, a Marine Corps private who died in battle in 1942.

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dDRNB TIL There Is An Island In the Mediterranean Sea Which Has Risen and Fallen Beneath The Sea Over 4 Times - It Is Currently Submerged Under The Sea
GYdl5 TIL that fruit punch was invented as an alternative to beer by men working for the British East India Company. This is because the beer on their ships went bad when they reached the Indian Ocean. They ended up using rum, fruit, and spices available in their new location to create punch.
Lkr5P TIL during a 1966 film version of Fahrenheit 451, the opening credits were read aloud with no text, since it's about a world without reading matter.
NWlE TIL: Scientists found a tomato plant on a volcanic island and were perplexed as to how it got there. Turns out it grew up fertilized in the poop left by a previous researcher.
loXrK TIL that Felix Salten, author of one of the most notorious and depraved works of erotic fiction in world literature ("Josefine Mutzenbacher") also wrote the book on which Disney's "Bambi" is based.