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TIL during WW2 the Japanese sunk the USS Indianapolis, the captain of the Indianopolis, Charles B. McVay, would receive harrowing letters/phonecalls from the parents of the fallen sailors blaming him for their childrens' death over the years. He died in 1968, via a self-inflicted gunshot to the head

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R7kVj TIL: The "Fearless Girl" statue that's famous for "standing up to the Bull on Wallstreet" was commissioned by an investments firm, State Street Global Advisors, which holds $2.8 trillion in assets. The statue was to advertise a new investment fund they were offering.
yVLY8 TIL that evidence obtained by dowsers or water witches can be used in Polish courts. Source is only in polish, sorry.
oBJ7R TIL that egg rolls are an American invention, but spring rolls are authentically Chinese.
6EGyw TIL that a rattlesnakes rattler is made from skin shed during molting. They start with one “button” (which is made of the same material as our fingernails), and add each time it molts.
6EAp7 TIL Jupiter's outermost known moon hasn't been spotted since its discovery in 2003, and is currently considered "lost."