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TIL: ‘Born in the USA’ was 1st CD Made in the US

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6EK9W TIL that in the 1950s, Mao's government purged capitalists and political opponents by abusing them verbally and physically until they confessed, often committing suicide. Jumping from tall buildings became so common that people avoided walking near skyscrapers, afraid that bodies might land on them
x6Jlk TIL after a typhoon severely damaged the USS Hornet, the carrier attacked Japanese forces by launching airplanes over her stern while in reverse.
Y66v TIL that Steven Spielberg made the Indiana Jones movies as revenge for being rejected from directing a James Bond movie.
b9lep TIL John Priest survived the Asturias foundering (1907, damaged in collision), Olympic and Hawke collision (1911), Titanic sinking (1912, hit iceberg), Alcantara sinking (1916, torpedoed), Britannic sinking (1916, hit mine), and Donegal sinking (1917, torpedoed).
EgV7W TIL that squirrels can't find more than half the nuts they hide