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TIL at the beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack, many people thought it was a drill. One sailor said, "This is the best goddam drill the Army Air Force has ever put on!"

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DaEp TIL that, when the Founding Father of Dubai, Sheikh Rashid, was asked about the future of Dubai, he said: “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel”
5YO8r TIL in Michael Jackson's music video for 'Beat It' he cast 80 members of the feuding gangs, Bloods and Crips, in an attempt to foster peace between them
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68OJ TIL Green Day payed to host a schools prom at a different location when the school board cancelled it because they didn’t want same sex couples at their prom
xVaO7 TIL in 1991 the Junipero Serra High School football team was so bad they failed to score a touchdown or win a game yet they never tried starting the backup quarterback. That backup QB they never started is 5-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady.