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TIL the word "Scuba" is an acronym for 'Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.

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loyr5 TIL that when Leonid Brezhnev was the head of government of the Soviet Union, he awarded himself the Hero of the Soviet Union for his birthday in 1966, 1976, 1978 and 1981
R7gj1 TIL Owen J. Badggett became legendary as the only person to shoot down a Japanese airplane with an M1911 pistol, hitting the pilot in the head.
wLrN6 TIL that during WW2 Japanese people were fully convinced that American soldiers were devils that 'devoured women and babies'; so they jumped off cliffs to kill themselves and avoid being captured.
EZwx TIL the head of Henry IV was found in an attic in 2010.
D1XVJ TIL In 2014 two chemists co-authored a paper describing all those consumer products appropriately labelled as “chemical free”. The paper was blank.