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TIL that nearly 70 years after Pearl Harbor, the USS Arizona continues to leak up to 9 quarts of oil each day.

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eOZD TIL Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, sexually assaulted a woman who then fell pregnant with his child. Following the child’s birth, the woman was placed in a mental asylum and Cleveland went onto to become governor of New York, known as “Grover the Good”.
MRa TIL A psychiatrist in the mid-1900s performed lobotomies with an icepick through the eye socket. Walter Freeman became so efficient he needed only 10 minutes per procedure.
b96ME TIL: In theory the top 0-60mph time the human body could survive is 0.091s
Pl0e TIL: In the 1950’s you could walk into a pet store, buy a monkey, kill it, shave it, dupe the media into believing it was an alien and only get fined $10.00.
woX18 TIL as punishment for not meeting their expectations or quotas, a tech firm based out of Zhengzhou, China made their employees eat raw eggs as punishment. Apparently, employees who did not want to consume the eggs could opt to swallow a whole tube of mustard instead.