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TIL of the USS Higbee, the first combat ship named after a woman who served in the Navy.

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JwX4 TIL - In ancient legend, elves weren’t the noble creatures portrayed in Tolkien’s stories but powerful and dangerous supernatural beings who were more likely to harm humans than to help them. Their name says so: it comes from an ancient Germanic term for a nightmare.
KYy1w TIL John McTiernan, director of Die Hard, Predator, and The Hunt for Red October, served a year in federal prison for a wiretapping scandal around the awful movie Rollerball and he has not made a movie since 2003
nW0Z7 TIL bald-faced hornets have a unique defense; they can spray venom from their stinger into the eyes of intruders.
Br85W TIL 1986 Ted Nugent made a $10 Million dollar bid for "elevator music" company Muzak, solely to shut them down.
wLeaW TIL that in 2006 Prince did a 'Willy Wonka' and made Universal hide 14 purple tickets—seven in the U.S. and seven internationally—inside his latest album, 3121. Fans who found a purple ticket were invited to attend a private performance at Prince's Los Angeles home.