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TIL Someone made a lifejacket for a fish that can’t swim.

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KOjQQ TIL of Throne of Blood, a retelling of Macbeth set in Feudal Japan
OkW4 TIL German scientists, during World War II, bureaucratically delayed the German A-bomb project until the Allies had won the war.
XleX TIL that Leo Major, a French Canadian soldier in WWII, singlehandedly liberated the Dutch town of Zwolle from an occupying German force, killing and capturing dozens of enemy soldiers in the process.
QJ5Lk TIL that Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner who discovered prions, an infectious protein in the brain, was attacked by both the scientific establishment and the media when he presented his ideas due to the thinking that an infectious protein would be impossible.
J1Ro8 TIL That the last naval battle of WW2 took place between ships under sail complete with combat by boarding party.