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TIL self-heating cans of soup were a thing in the 1940s. They had flavors like ox tail; kidney soup and mock turtle.

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o4jo TIL when the West Virginia was raised after being sunk in the attack in Pearl Harbor the bodies of three sailors were found in an airtight hold along with evidence that the men had survived sixteen days after the attack.
6EVLY TIL Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, was kicked out of the American Library Association for constant unwelcome advances towards women librarians.
8eKX TIL JRR Tolkien actually considered Sam, not Frodo, the hero of the Lord of the Rings series
5Y10p TIL of the 4 Chaplains. A Jewish Rabbi, a Catholic priest, and 2 Protestant ministers who were on the SS Dorchester when it was torpedoed. The 4 helped evacuate the ship and gave away their own lifejackets when supply ran out, then joined arms and sang hymns as they went down with the ship.
kJ481 TIL that ‘Persepolis’ - Marjane Satrapi’s autobiography of her childhood during the Iranian Revolution - has faced numerous attempts at banning the book from schools and libraries. Every attempt has failed.