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TIL that Japan developed crewed suicide torpedoes called Kaiten during WWII, where pilots steered modified torpedoes into enemy ships with no way to escape.

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EWNo TIL: of Willem Arondeus, a Homosexual Dutch anti-Nazi fighter who bombed the Amsterdam Public Records Office to hinder the Nazi identification of Jews. He was arrested & executed. His last words were, “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”
1alkd TIL a pharmacist misread a woman’s prescription for dry eye medication and gave her a cream for erectile dysfunction instead. The woman suffered temporary chemical injuries to her eyes.
PY7L TIL that Will Smith was originally offered the part of Neo in The Matrix but turned it down so he could be in a movie called “The Wild West”.
PYPMg TIL exactly 45 years ago (12/06/73), Nixon used his power under the 25th Amendment to appoint Ford as his new vice president the United States. To date, Ford remains the only person to assume the roles of both President and Vice President without having been elected by the electoral college.
VM6QZ TIL that the First brown bear in 150 years has been seen in a national park in northern Spain