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TIL Joe DiMaggio, embarrassed by the special treatment he got in the Army during WWII, demanded combat duty.

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4Nd6 TIL That a company called The SeaStead Institute is trying to establish permanent autonomous ocean communities to enable social, political and legal system experiments. They plan on launching their first island 2014 and had recieved 500 000 dollar donation by a Co founder of PayPal
4LWN TIL President Eisenhower predicted Holocaust Deniers, so he ordered pictures be taken of concentration camps.
Wjao TIL on October 24 1975, 90% of Iceland’s women refused to work, cook or look after children. Every ten years, on the anniversary of this initial strike, women stop all work to demonstrate their important positions and continue the struggle for equality.
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yVXYl TIL Hemingway was three months sober when he killed himself in 1961