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TIL Canadians attempted to build a ship out of ice during WWII.

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EgKeP TIL about a billions of years old meteorite that held a beautiful secret.
R5PZj TIL that in 1859, a geomagnetic storm from a huge solar flare hit the Earth and auroras were visible around the globe. Telegraph systems in Europe and North America failed. Some telegraph equipment operated for over an hour without needing external electrical power.
wj16 TIL that During World War II in the pacific, approaching soldiers in Allied uniforms were ordered to shout lollapalooza back to the ones manning the checkpoint — if they pronounced the L’s as R’s, as Japanese soldiers were likely to do, they could be identified as spies.
j6r9N TIL that in 1210, King John of England imprisoned a noble named Maud de Braose with her son William in a dungeon beneath Corfe Castle, and left there to starve to death. When their bodies were retrieved 11 days later, it was found that Maud had eaten parts of her son’s body before she died.
l7Grr TIL Motown founder Berry Gordy is a second cousin to former President Jimmy Carter