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TIL there was a second attack on Pearl Harbor in March of 1942

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Bgm9K TIL Jerry Springer was born in London during World War II in an underground station
vaJD TIL That Disney’s Snow White was 14 years old, and Ariel and Aurora (sleeping beauty) were 16.
epAlL TIL that commercial fishing used to deliberately surround, trap and drown dolphins that would get in the way of the tuna which led to a government act to protect and label tuna caught without harming dolphins as “dolphin safe” tuna.
Nao1 TIL that we know what potassium cyanide tastes like, because an Indian scientist left a note describing its taste as he committed suicide. “Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid,”
b9doZ TIL an English palace used to have a solid gold toilet named America. Valued at $6.5M, it was stolen in 2019