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TIL the US Navy named a warship after Harold Holt, an Australian Prime Minister who disappeared while swimming. The ship was eventually used as a training target and sunk in 2002.

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yVkKV TIL about Saint-Malo, Brittany. This city on the French coast has some of the highest tides in Europe, rising as high as 40 feet during parts of the year, and the water withdrawing hundreds of yards. A sea wall, built in the 17th century, protects the city from the tides.
pYAkQ TIL The Salvation Army was originally opposed by and fought with The Skeleton Army which was composed of lower and working class citizens, punks and miscreants who objected to the SA's views on abstinence and temperence.
wLD6Y TIL that Tom Petty's first solo album, "Full Moon Fever", which sold over five million copies, spawned five hit singles, and had collaborations with rock legends (George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison) was initially rejected by MCA Records because the top executive didn't hear any good songs
mgMR TIL if you put some cut up garlic in between your toes (or in your lady parts to treat an yeast infection), you can taste it after a little while. Garlic and onion can be sucked up by your skin and put in your blood, when the blood takes them to your lungs, you taste them when you breathe out.
JYLKv TIL that, in Huangluo, the average hair length of the 120 women is 1,7 meters : they only cut their hair once in their life (at age 16) and the remains are attached to their current growing strands, along with their daily fallings strings of hair.