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TIL Harry R. Truman refused to leave his lodge at the base of Mount St. Helens in Washington state despite evacuation orders due to its seismic activity, saying to reporters "If the mountain goes, I'm going with it." He was killed by the pyroclastic flow from the eruption on May 18th, 1980.

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m9Eo TIL A British ship snuck into the French-built Suez Canal the night before opening ceremonies to spite the French.
ObN4 TIL Tear Gas (and pepper spray) are illegal to use in warfare. Used on our own citizens in riot control, it cannot be used on enemy combatants.
AxLa TIL Canada changed liquor laws to start sales at 5 a.m for the Olympic gold medal hockey game.
PYgen TIL that Hitler never visited a single concentration camp or death camp and no written order for the “Final Solution” has ever been found. He also never spoke about it, even to his closest entourage in order to distance himself. This is used by Holocaust deniers as evidence against the Holocaust.
pD58 TIL that up until the 1800’s, it was commonly believed that placing dirty underwear in a bucket with wheat grains would “generate” mice. This was called spontaneous generation, the idea that life could be created from nonliving objects.