› added 1 month ago

28

TIL Bruce Springsteen's famous song, 'Born in the U.S.A.', is actually a critique of the government's treatment of Vietnam War veterans

Read more npr.org

via reddit.com

1KNP TIL 3 of the 4 sunk US battleships at the Attack on Pearl Harbor were later raised, returned to service, and used to fight in World War II
raXW TIL when Titanic went down, its shipping company stopped the crew’s pay but charged families the freight costs of shipping the bodies back. Most couldn’t afford it, which is why there are so many memorials rather than graves for the more than 500 crewmen from Southampton who died aboard the ship.
9OQp TIL milk and earwax are types of sweat.
0LeA TIL that the Chernobyl disaster would have been a lot worse if three engineers hadn’t volunteered to swim through radioactive water to open valves and drain the liquid to prevent a steam explosion
xVYPb TIL of the Mid-Atlantic accent, a combination of American and British English that no one "actually spoke...unless educated to do so", a fashion from the Northeastern US. Christopher Plummer, Katharine Hepburn, FDR, Julia Child, Gore Vidal, Sideshow Bob, and Mark Hamill's Joker are noted examples.