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TIL that people wanted to censor Washington Crossing the Delaware because they thought his watch was his penis

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JYEo1 TIL of the Gouffé Case, a murder case which unfolded in France, 1889. The subsequent investigation lived on as a case study for budding criminologists. Many of the methods utilized by Dr. Lacassagne during his weeklong autopsy, are now standard practices in forensic examinations.
jNWXn TIL Legend says Alexander the Great used an ancient submarine "bathysphere" to survey the underwater sea. What he saw horrified him: "the world is damned and lost".
R57A8 TIL about President Risto Ryti of Finland who, in exchange for military and food assistance during WWII, promised Germany he would fight the Soviet Union. Germany provided the supplies, and Ryti resigned, allowing his successor to seek peace with the Soviets.
6pQQ TIL: One of the very few surviving ships from the 1944 D-Day invasion is still in service as a car ferry in Connecticut
kmEm TIL that erotic automaton pocket watches were a fad in the day.