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g057 TIL that the name of the KA-BAR knife, used by the US Marines and Navy, originated from a trapper’s illegible writing after claiming he used the knife to “kill a bear” in 1923.
Zp8lQ TIL: US torpedoes at the beginning of WW2 had an extremely high dud rate that took awhile to be acknowledged because the US Navy refused to allow live testing of ordinance as a cost saving measure.
pkaN TIL Adolf Hitler’s mother, Klara Hitler, died from breast cancer in 1909. In 1940 Adolf showed gratitude to their family doctor Eduard Bloch (who was Jewish) for treating his mother by allowing him to emigrate with his wife to the United States from Austria.
kJeVm TIL that Dennis, one of the bullies on Bully Beatdown, won all of the prize money after the MMA fighter they were up against, failed to submit or even KO them.
GYbxg TIL that inhaled rubbing alcohol relieves nausea & vomiting better than a prescription antiemetic widely used for chemo patients