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TIL in effort to keep morale high for WWII troops fighting in the Pacific, the British built a floating brewery and dispatched it to the South Seas

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J1RZ8 TIL the longest theoretical sight line at ground level on earth is Hindu-tagh in China to Mt. Dankova in Kyrgyzstan at 538 Km, while the longest photographed sight line is from the Spanish Pyrenees to French Alps at 443 Km.
lYRN TIL To guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier you must be in superb condition, have a perfect military record, be 5'10"-6'4", a proportionate weight/build, memorize 7 pages of history, recited verbatim, learn grave locations of 300 vets. After several months, they’re tested on the cemetery and Tomb.
WkE64 TIL that the Nirvana drummer / Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl once filled in for a sick drummer of the band Cage The Elephant. He had one day to learn the songs after only hearing them a few times and played them perfectly.
GYdpN TIL US Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin wanted the US to ratify the UN Genocide Convention. He gave a speech on the need to ratify it each day the Senate was in session from 1967-1986 (a total of 3,211 times) until the US Senate finally ratified it on Feb. 11th, 1986 in an 83-11 vote.
1aND8 TIL when Steve Buscemi was 4-years-old he was hit by a bus and managed to survive with a fractured skull. He received a $6,000 settlement from the city that was to be collected from a trust fund when he turned 18. When Buscemi turned 18, he used part of the money to pay for full-time acting classes.