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TIL: Why don’t we eat rabbits? - The Straight Dope

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LJvZ TIL JFK carried one of his injured crew members through 4 miles in water to a small island after a Japanese ship attacked the vessel he was commanding.
RO78 TIL The Object 269, created by Soviet engineers in 1959, was a tank that was designed to survive a nuclear explosion.
b9mdj TIL that Queen Elizabeth played the American Anthem during the guard change and doing so she broke tradition for the first time. This happened one day after the 9/11
yDQl TIL A man tried to get the expressed written consent of Major League Baseball in order to give an account of the game to his friend, as their legal disclaimer states is required. He never got it.
LQpJZ TIL about the Oh-My-God particle; an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected on 15 October 1991. As of 2023 it is the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed and the time of its detection it was traveling at 0.9999999999999999999999951 times the speed of light.