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TIL we evolved so that our left testicle is lower than our right in order to prevent compression of them in impact

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MeOvm TIL of Harlon Block, a marine who raised the flag on Iwo Jima but then died soon after. He was misidentified in the famous picture for 2 years but his mother knew it was him. Looking at the photo she exclaimed “I’ve changed so many diapers on that boy’s butt, I know it’s my boy"
pkYZ TIL That in 1975 $10 million worth of Huey helicopters had to be pushed off the flight deck of the USS Midway and into the sea to make way for the emergency landing of an aircraft with Vietnamese evacuees on board
Oo9Y1 TIL Aleister Crowley infiltrated a pro-German propaganda newspaper in NYC during WW1 that was trying to keep America neutral. His incendiary writing helped undermine the propaganda movement and may have contributed to America joining the war.
R7mGl TIL that by the time James Cameron made Titanic in 1997, there had already been over a dozen films covering the disaster
6En7W TIL about Martin Joe Laurello, aka Human Owl and Bobby the Boy with the Revolving Head, a German-American man who could turn his head 180 degrees