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TIL that ‘S.O.S’ isnt an acronym for “Save Our Souls/Ship”, its a backronym designed so that the morse code would be memorable

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oBj0K TIL about a real, legitimate religion called pastafarianism or the church of the flying spaghetti monster.
1a7Jr TIL Queen Elizabeth II is the only living head of state to have served in World War II
grOZ4 TIL During WW1, senior officers in the British Royal Flying Corps banned their pilots from having parachutes, claiming they would encourage pilots to bail out rather than continue fighting.