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TIL that immediately after Winston Churchill's 'We shall fight them on the beaches' speech during WWII, he told a colleague, "And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that's bloody well all we've got!"

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78GwL TIL of Euthyphro dilemma, found in Plato's dialogue Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks Euthyphro, "Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?" "The gods" refer to the Greek pantheon.
7rOYL TIL French horticulturist Francis Meilland developed The Peace Rose between 1935-1939. He sent cuttings to friends in Italy, Turkey, Germany, and The U.S to protect it. It is said that it was sent to the US on last plane available before the German invasion.
vjar TIL Thomas Silverstein holds the world record for being isolated from the rest of the world. He has been in solitary confinement since 1983 and is still going.
awyvy TIL San Francisco had a plague outbreak in the 1900s. Government officials repeatedly denied that it existed to ensure that no quarantine was put into place. When they acknowledged it existed, they blamed it on China. This resulted in the destruction of Chinatown.
4Xyna TIL in 2011 a Soviet war memorial in Sofia, Bulgaria was vandalized overnight, with the soldiers depicted as American pop culture characters and the spray-painted caption "Abreast with the Times"