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TIL: Cavemen had tattoos. Ötzi the Iceman from 3250 B.C. had 61 tattoos across his body.

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womDJ TIL that as the USS Franklin was returning to Pearl Harbor for repairs after surviving multiple kamikaze hits, the captain refused to allow the harbor pilot to dock the aircraft carrier, wanting to do it himself. He proceeded to immediately crash the ship into the dock.
VBXpQ TIL during WW2 the Japanese sunk the USS Indianapolis, the captain of the Indianopolis, Charles B. McVay, would receive harrowing letters/phonecalls from the parents of the fallen sailors blaming him for their childrens' death over the years. He died in 1968, via a self-inflicted gunshot to the head
JYgM1 TIL After the deaths of his brothers JFK and RFK, Ted Kennedy became the sole patriarch to the Kennedy family. On the same day his 12-year-old son was having his cancer-laden leg amputated, Ted had to rush down to lead his niece, RFK’s daughter, down the aisle at her wedding.
5YBED TIL a football is commonly referred to as a "Pigskin" because historically they contained an inflated pigs bladder.
EggGX TIL Pacific ocean (165 millions km²) is wider than the planet Mars (144,8 millions km²) and more than 4 times the size of the moon (38 millions km²)