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TIL President George H.W. Bush was 17 when told of Pearl Harbor. He defied his Dad to join the Navy, becoming its youngest flier and a Pacific hero. Now, he doesn’t like to discuss it.

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mxWPy TIL of the Bodo League Massacre. A genocide personally witnessed by the American Armed Forces and carried out by the South Korean Military. Around 200,000 people ended up dead. The British Armed Forces were able to successfully save many of the citizens that had been 'marked for death'.
oBl1E TIL that Human Evolution is actually accelerating. The rate of evolution is far greater in the last few thousand years than it had been in the six million years since we split from our last common ancestor with present day chimpanzees.
XK8X TIL that Robin Wright got “really, really drunk” on tequila in order to shoot a sex scene with Woody Harrelson because she considers him like a brother.
5VY8P TIL the word "hurricane" itself comes from the Taino Indigenous Caribbean word hurakán, meaning evil spirits of the wind.
oR0K TIL all the air in potato chip bags we complain about is actually Nitrogen and serves a purpose. It preserves the crispiness and provides cushion during shipping.