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TIL the only person a 5-star U.S. general will salute first (other than the president) is a Medal of Honor recipient.

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oVeL TIL that self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graudation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships
ErVx TIL Sperm whales are so called because their heads are filled with large amounts of oily fluid, which whalers thought was sperm. Scientists still aren’t sure what it’s there for
wo8RP TIL that the Yamato, the largest battleship ever built, was on a 3,000-man kamikaze mission to beach herself on Okinawa before she was sunk by US forces in April of 1945.
1aJGX TIL many who survived the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945 were subsequently eaten by sharks as they bobbed in open waters for four days. Navy intelligence had ignored a message from the sub that had torpedoed it, thinking it was a trick to lure American rescue boats into an ambush.
nB97 TIL that the weight of the Higgs Boson indicates that our Universe is unstable, meaning a limit to our understanding of physics and the inevitable end of our universe.