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TIL The most valuable issues of National Geographic are generally those published before 1907. The 1904 issue, its first publication containing images, is almost impossible to find in mint condition

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d8JnB TIL in 1968, four submarines sunk belonging to Russia, the USA, France and Israel, with no clear and obvious cause for the sinkings.
VDrm TIL Thousands of shipping containers are lost to the sea each year, and that if the containers cargo weight does not exceed 80% of the containers rated capacity, they will float.
JY8k8 TIL if you are 6' tall and looking out over the ocean at sea level the horizon is roughly 3 miles away
p8aEA TIL in 1951, 650 British soldiers were being overwhelmed by 10,000 Chinese. When an American general asked for a status update, a brigadier responded "things are a bit sticky down there." No help was sent and almost all of the troops were killed because the general did not get the understatement.
vnYx TIL That the Nazi Salute is said to have originated from the Roman Empire, but no surviving Roman art or text describes the salute. 18th century French painters labeled the gesture as the “Roman Salute”, and was adopted by European fascists in the early 1900s.