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TIL The story that the Titanic engineers remained inside the ship till the end to keep the electricity running didn’t actually happen

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m1RPy TIL Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez was awarded the Medal of Honor for his valorous actions in Vietnam. Despite being hit by grenade, shot several times, and stabbed, for a total of 37 major wounds, Sergeant Benavidez managed to rescue 12 of his fellow soldiers.
gr6nX TIL The bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Little Boy) converted only about 0.7 grams of mass to energy. This is roughly 1/3 the mass of a dime.
GYneE TIL Major League Baseball (MLB) grants a lifetime pass for free admission to MLB games for life to any player, manager, coach or umpire with at least eight years of MLB experience. MLB is the only major pro-sports league that has such a program.
QP4e TIL the first US Warship to be named after a black man was named in 1943 for sailor Leonard Roy Harmon. Harmon worked serving food to officers, one of the few jobs available to black sailors. At the battle of Guadalcanal, however, Harmon deliberately exposed himself to enemy fire to save a shipmate.
OPBL TIL that you need to know how to use Windows in order to get a job with Apple.