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TIL that one of the discoveries proving plate tectonics were a thing, was figured out because of magnets the US ships were using to detect submarines.

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xbQb TIL in 1941 Harry Truman said “if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious in any circumstances.”
M7M0B TIL that in 1930, the 22 million pound Indiana Bell building was shifted 52 feet (16 m) south, rotated 90 degrees, and then shifted again 100 feet (30 m) west. The services they provided for telephone, water, sewage, gas, and electricity were all unaffected. The 600 employees inside felt nothing.
VMPyB TIL: on tour in 1974 Frank Sinatra referred to Australian female journalists as buck & a half hookers, the resulting public outrage saw the unions black ban him. The tour resumed after future Prime Minister Bob Hawke brokered a deal over a bottle of brandy & Sinatra issued a "statement of regret"
DQoKg TIL Kangatarianism is a vegetarian diet that cuts out meat except Kangaroo on environmental and ethical grounds
wLnvW TIL that Jennefer Lopez is not in fact married or even related to George Lopez