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TIL that the Vietnam War is called the “American War” in Vietnam (fully the “War Against the Americans to Save the Nation”).

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1aayO TIL that there is a bigger volcanic process than super volcanoes called Large Igneous Provinces that appear to have occurred simultaneously with extinction events.
Z8QXv TIL that the West Indie's top cricketer Kraigg Brathwaite was scrawny as a kid, and got bullied by his Combermere School (Barbados) bus mates. A girl, 4 years his senior, protected him. She beat up the bullies & took Kraigg on her lap. Her name: Robyn Fenty, a.k.a. Rihanna.
7ooM TIL that creativity and mental illness are chemical cousins
l7ew5 TIL "hear, hear" is an abridgement of "Hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!"
rNXD4 TIL that the WWII submarine USS Tang sank two Japanese freighters in 1944 and was then sunk by one of her own torpedoes. Of the 78-man crew, nine survived and were rescued by the same Japanese frigate that had rescued sailors from the freighters the Tang had sunk the night before.