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TIL of PLUTO, the fuel pipeline-under-the-ocean laid by allied forces to support the D-Day invasions.

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Zp8Dv TIL that Charles Lindbergh’s son, Charles Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped at 20 months old. The kidnapper picked up a cash ransom for $50,000 leaving a note of the child’s location. The child was not found at the location. The child’s remains were found a month later not far from the Lindbergh’s home.
m1Plv TIL that there used to be a President of the Continental Congress.
4XaDb TIL if you can compress the earth into the size of a ping pong ball, it became a black hole.
5Vo7B TIL Senator Benjamin Tillman once called his fellow Senator from South Carolina, John L. McLaurin, corrupt. In return, McLaurin called Tillman a liar. Tillman then punched McLaurin in the face and McLaurin punched Tillman in the nose. The Sergeant at Arms and other Senators intervened to stop them.
dbg7 TIL of Nobuo Fujita, the only person to ever drop a bomb on the contiguous U.S. He was later invited back to the town he unsuccessfully bombed but carried his family’s 400 y/o sword to commit seppuku if he received a hostile reception. He was greeted warmly, and donated the sword to the town instead