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TIL: The USS Wisconsin took a direct hit from N Korean 155mm guns with little damage. The crew then returned fire with all nine of her 16 inch guns totally obliterating anything in the position the hostile shots came from. After the shots were fired, a sister ship signaled them "Temper, Temper"

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YeA TIL Henry David Thoreau once accidentally burned down 300 acres of Walden Woods, and was known around town as “wood burner.”
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QOO9 TIL there used to be an island called “Slut’s Bush” off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts. The island sank under the ocean by the 1800s.
GY1lg TIL that when Stephen Hawking was asked what his IQ is, He replied “I have no idea, people who brag about their IQ scores are losers”
mxbx TIL the little paper ribbon on Herhey Kisses is called a “NigglyWiggly”