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TIL The only Japanese who survived the Titanic lost his job because he was known as a coward in Japan for not dying with the other passengers.

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a8n4L TIL in 1983, a soviet military officer “saved the world” from a full-blown nuclear war by disobeying orders, after receiving a false alarm of missiles fired by the USA
1AXX TIL After ships reached the end of their service lives, they are sent to poorer countries’ shores to be dissembled by workers who get paid less than 3 USD a day in near-death, toxic work environments. A large ship takes up to six months to dissemble into scrap metal, and death was not uncommon.
v1rND TIL the most money ever paid for a screenplay was the script to the quickly forgotten 2006 Denzel Washington sci-fi thriller "Deja Vu". Terry Rossio and Bill Masilii sold the script for $5 million to Touchstone Pictures. The record price hasn't been broken yet by another screenplay as of 2021.
adQA TIL that female bonobos rub their clitorises together every 2 hours on average
BgOGe TIL General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck led 14,000 troops (3,000 Germans and 11,000 Africans) in WWI, holding off 300,000 Allied forces in East Africa for four years using guerilla warfare. He was never defeated or captured, making him the only German commander to successfully invade British territory.