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TIL: North Korea claims to have sunk the heavy cruiser USS Baltimore and even preserved the ship that “sunk it” in a museum. The USS Baltimore was never deployed to Korea and was scrapped in 1972.

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QNa8k TIL the Emperor Nero was so esteemed in the empire’s eastern provinces that he was used as a benchmark for later rulers—Vespasian was found lacking in comparison.
eX7E TIL while Machiavelli criticized Christianity and the Church, he also strongly believed in the use of religion as a political tool. He thought that fear of God kept society in order, and that while a leader shouldn’t be too religious himself, he should make his people as religious as possible.
AnMx TIL that as the result of a diplomatic error, the Netherlands remained in state of war with a set of English islands for over 300 years. Upon signing a peace treaty in 1986, the Dutch ambassador joked that it must have been harrowing for the islanders “to know we could have attacked at any moment.”
OGPA4 TIL about a man named Tricongius (meaning '3 gallon man') who was a celebrity in ancient Rome because of his ability to drink 3 gallons of wine in a single sitting. The Roman Emperor Tiberius is said to have been very impressed with him
W71eo TIL the DEA updated/clarified some rules & regs for controls including C2 transfers