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TIL that when Admiral Rickover, father of the USA’s nuclear navy, was forced to retire by President Reagan he replied with “Mr. President, that is bullshit” and walked out.

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yVrp8 TIL about fire classes (in the USA) which each have specific ways to extinguish them—A (ordinary combustibles), B (flammable liquids/gases), C(electrical fires), D (metals like elemental sodium in water), and K (lipids/fats like kitchen fires).
94a6 TIL when advertisers began to drop Lance Armstrong due to his doping allegations, he reportedly lost 75 million dollars in a single day.
vPplD TIL during the rescue of Maersk Alabama Captain Phillips from Somali pirates the $30,000 in cash they obtained from the ship went missing, 2 Seal team six members were investigated but never charged. The money was never recovered
1D57 TIL Human Zoos existed. “These were popular human exhibits where whites went to watch Black people who were on display. The Black people were usually forced to live behind gates and in cages similar to animals in a zoo today.”
p8PQ TIL America’s first astronaut Alan Shepard before his rocket took off said, “Don’t F*** this up, Shepard” This became known as Shepard’s Prayer