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TIL that, while stationed in Haiti, Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Faustin Wirkus was crowned king by a local tribal queen as he seemed fit their local prophecy.

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RMj TIL South Koreans drink more hard liquor than any other country
rZyw TIL the dodo bird’s flightlessness and lack of a fear response was actually an evolutionary advantage before humans arrived, allowing them to conserve energy on an island with no predators.
p8Vo4 TIL: the deep ocean is heterogenous and made up of discrete water masses, which can be tracked, measured, and dated; some water masses are up to 1,500 years old!
RN8 TIL the Molotov Cocktail is not Russian, despite the obvious Russian name. The petrol bomb was mass produced by the Finnish in the Winter War, and the term itself was coined to mock Soviet propaganda.
xV1k TIL there was a British submarine named the “HMS Tally-Ho”