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TIL that Terry Pratchett was a Skyrim and Oblivion modder

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1aad4 TIL the first US naval ship to have electric lighting was the USS Trenton (commissioned, 1877). The lights were installed in 1883
YNAB TIL two time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler wrote: “I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
W8D9 TIL there is an algae that can destroy a human’s ability to make memories. It hangs out in red tides.
lja1 TIL the average infantryman in the South Pacific during World War II saw about 40 days of combat in four years. The average infantryman in Vietnam saw about 240 days of combat in one year
VBOBZ TIL: That Alfréd Hajós was a Hungarian swimmer who won two gold medals in swimming at the 1896 Athens Olympics. He went on to compete in the 1924 Paris Olympics 28 years later winning a silver medal for architecture, making him one of only two Olympians ever to have won medals in both sport and art.