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TIL World Taekwondo Federation changed their name in 2017 to void acronym WTF

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wLnp1 TIL in 1714, a Norwegian captain and an English captain had a 14-hour long ship fight. Afterwards, both ships were badly damaged and the Norwegian captain was running out of ammo. He sent an envoy to the English ship, asking if he could borrow some of their ammo. They said no.
1D8P TIL that the Hindu religion states that science only offers a limited view of reality, but all it offers is right and correct, meaning that the religion by it’s nature cannot contradict science, leading to the the majority of even highly religious Hindus accepting evolution as fact.
xVpy5 TIL that the writer of "Angel Voices, Ever Singing" banned it from being published with a tune by Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert & Sullivan
loNKN TIL: Keso, a brand of cottage cheese, is so popular in Sweden that many recipes list cottage cheese as Keso, the brand name.
W5b4 TIL The only Japanese person who survived titanic lost his job because he was known as a coward for not dying with everyone else.