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TIL that New Zealand once tried to weaponize tsunamis (Project Seal)

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9d7B TIL that after a falling out with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein–who had written the phrase “A rose is a rose is a rose–supposedly received a telegram from him that read: "A bitch is a bitch is a bitch”
LQKNv TIL: Samir and the codriver from "You're breaking the car Samir!" took legal action and found the video was made by a competitor to make them look bad.
j6XQj TIL a pilot "pushed" a fellow aviators plane out of hostile airspace during the Vietnam war so they could safely eject over friendly skies and be rescued.
neeQB Shopkeeper removing the word, ‘Italian’ from the sign above his restaurant in Soho, London during WW II, after anti-Italian riots throughout Britain.
4XyB6 TIL that Alexander Godunov, who played Karl, the violent German in Die Hard (1988), his first major break into Hollywood was playing a gentle Amish farmer in Witness (1985). In 1979, he had defecting from the USSR and was a world class ballet dancer. Sadly, he died aged 45, in 1995