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TIL the British Navy battled the French Navy in WWII.

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vPX14 TIL that during the Vietnam war there were 7 discharges, 17 AWOL cases, 2 disciplinary charges, 12 complains to congress and 18 non-judicial punishments in every 100 groups of soldiers, whilst one third report some form of consistent drug abuse
l7eWK TIL that the scientific name for the western lowland gorilla is Gorilla gorilla gorilla, which is a subspecies of the western gorilla, Gorilla gorilla
JVgm TIL Lance Armstrong, at the height of his doping behaviour in the 2000s, made a $100k donation to the international cycling federation to ‘fund the fight against doping’
9w0jm TIL that since the 1st Thanksgiving and 1900, MORE than 9 million 300 thousand members of 1st Nations (Native Americans), have been victims of genocide at the hands of the US Government.
WBpd TIL in 1987, a former airline worker shot his boss mid-flight, causing the stewardess to tell the pilot “We have a problem!”. The pilot asked “What kind of problem?” and at that moment, the man shot the stewardess dead & announced “I’m the problem” before murdering the pilots and crashing the plane