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TIL in 1985 French government agents bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship docked in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a freelance photographer

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woobE TIL Ring Around the Rosie was more likely a flirting / courtship game and almost certainly had nothing to do with the Black Death.
KxM4 TIL the Navy’s stealth destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, can’t fire its guns because the ammo is too expensive
NJeE TIL there’s a paper by the University of Toronto that outlines the usage and historic context of “eh”
b6gm4 TIL that Orchidometer is a medical instrument used to measure the volume of the testicles.
b680a TIL about “ telephoning for catfish” Southern fishers in the 1950s jury-rigged components of old crank-style telephones to send an electric current through the water and stun fish, and it only works on fish with no scales, like catfish.