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TIL Yogi Berra found out what a bidet was in 1954 when visiting the italian hometown of his parents and had a handfull of them sent to his american home.

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xV5D TIL The ship registration on Galaxy Quest (NTE-3120) stands for Not The Enterprise.
VBYxD TIL France has detonated nearly 200 nuclear bombs in the South Pacific, the last of which was in 1996
e5dg TIL During the Winter War Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov said the soviet planes over Finland were not bombers but humanitarian food drops. The Finns responded by naming their improvised explosives Molotov Cocktails, “A drink to go with the food.”
X0EED TIL a Royal Navy pilot landed his fighter jet on top of some shipping containers on a Spanish ship.. which continued undeterred to its destination, then took £570,000 for "salvaging" the aircraft.
W5ZA TIL That ‘fragging’ is the deliberate killing of a senior ranking military officer, usually with a frag grenade…with over 900 cases near the end of the Vietnam war.