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TIL the reason Britain says “Aluminium” and America says “Aluminum” is due to the Scientist who coined a name for the element being indecisive and using both names in his book

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EgEKw TIL although it’s widely believed that The Doors never had a bass player, the statement isn’t entirely accurate, as the band always had a session bass player for their studio recordings. In fact, Elvis Presley’s bassist, Jerry Scheff, played on the band’s 1971 album, "L.A. Woman".
6KPl TIL that the inventor of the Kaiten manned suicide torpedo, Lt. Hiroshi Kuroki, was killed during one of the first training missions. When his torpedo was raised, a note was found that both sent respects to his family, and detailed the cause of the accident and how to fix the defect.
b68Y0 TIL the highest-ranking officer killed on either side of the U.S. Civil War was Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston. He died during the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862. Jefferson Davis believed the loss of Johnston “was the turning point of our fate.”
p8Rae TIL Kombucha is claimed to treat AIDS, aging, anorexia, arthritis, atherosclerosis, cancer, constipation, and diabetes, but there is no evidence to support any of these claims. Moreover, the beverage has caused rare cases of serious adverse effects, including fatalities.
698aQ TIL the ancient Greek alphabet -- and by implication today's English alphabet -- can be traced back to a single vote held in Athens in 403 BC on whether to adapt the "Ionic Alphabet", the first of the "Euclidean" alphabets. It supposedly took them one year to implement the metric change.