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TIL: The attack on the Philippines Dec. 8 was larger in scale than Pearl Harbor but nobody remembers it. In the Philippines, then a U.S. territory, the attackers laid waste to the largest concentration of US warplanes outside North America—the foundation of the Allies’ Pacific air defense.

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NZdP TIL of the Tunguska Event. 106 years ago today, an unexplained explosion toppled some 80 million trees over an area of 830 square miles in central Russia. The energy of the explosion was estimated to be ~1000x greater than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
4kBYw TIL Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield teamed up to produce edible cannabis sweets in the shape of Holyfield's ear, called "Holy Ears"
4X9rg TIL The family Scapegoat is often the family member who is non-compliant with mistreatment, the whistle blower, expresses displeasure or advocates for their own needs, and is then demonized as the family problem, thereby establishing a ‘false narrative’ of victim blaming.
Oo9P7 TIL that in the 1970s, an unemployed haulage contractor named Arthur Hickey proposed to turn the Titanic into an iceberg using liquid nitrogen in order to raise her to the surface. It was calculated that this would have required half a million tons of liquid nitrogen.
m1mJy TIL that an area in Texas is called "The Texas Killing Fields." Since the early 1970s roughly 30 bodies have been extracted from the fields, mainly consisting of young girls. The fields have been described as "a perfect place for killing somebody and getting away with it."