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TIL that Rear Admiral Selden Hooper was the only admiral in the US navy to be convicted by court-martial. It was because he was a homosexual.

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OGgVX In 1969, Alan Funt, the creator of the television prank show Candid Camera, was on board an airplane that got hijacked. His fellow passengers recognized him and refused to believe the hijacking was real. They were finally convinced after the hijackers forced the plane to land in Cuba.
woyj7 TIL On September 10, 2001, a day before the September 11 attacks, Limp Bizkit received a letter from the World Trade Center thanking them for featuring the towers in their music video (Rollin').
J17Jj TIL that after aborting their attempt to reach the North Pole. Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen would spend over a year stranded on Franz Josef Land before being rescued by Frederick George Jackson. A man Nansen had rejected from joining his North Pole expedition due to not being Norwegian.
LkkWp TIL why Joe Cocker was so animated when singing: “I guess that came with my frustration at never having played piano or guitar. If you see me nowadays I’m not quite so animated, but it’s just a way of trying to get feeling out — I get excited and it
PYy5Z TIL a Guatemalan boy saw soldiers come into his village and murder his parents along with the rest of the village, was adopted and raised in an abusive household by one of the men who massacred the villagers, and later gave testimony that sent the killer to prison with a 6,000 year sentence