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TIL that the son of a soldier who was killed by the Viet Cong guerrilla shot in the infamous 1968 Saigon Execution photo went on to become a Rear Admiral in the US Navy.

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lX7r TIL it’s still unknown how Stegasaurus’s were able to mate without hurting each other with their spiky backs.
x6EWB TIL Sumomomomomomomomo, a Japanese racehorse that was dubbed “the horse that makes commentators cry” because of its tongue-twister name. Its name translated means “Plums are peaches, and peaches are peaches, and plums and peaches are both types of peaches.”
a8PgJ TIL Yoko Ono’s uncle Toshikazu Kase was a high ranking Imperial Japanese civil servant and diplomat that was present at the 1945 surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri and was Japans first ambassador to the UN.
eLw5 TIL In 2004, the Parisian police in an uncharted area of the Paris Catacombs, found a secret room with a stocked bar and restaurant. They returned to trace the installed power and phone lines to discover they had been cut, with a note left behind reading, “Do not try and find us.”
GaQj TIL Albert Einstein was also a gifted musician, playing both the piano and violin with exceptional skill. He once said: “The greatest scientists are artists as well.”