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TIL that not all Kamikazes were volunteers, and at least one of them strafed his own command post after takeoff...

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JYwdQ TIL an almost perfectly preserved dinosaur was found in a Canadian oil sands mine in 2011. The 2,500 pound fossil was unveiled to the public in 2017 and is currently on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada.
grV9A TIL that, despite dying at 46, William Pitt the Younger is the second-longest serving British PM at 18 years and 343 days. The only person to serve longer was Robert Walpole.
jNxxa TIL Dr. John Fryer of Philadelphia appeared at the 1972 APA convention wearing a rubber mask to deliver a speech about the hardships of being a psychiatrist and gay. His speech was vital to getting homosexuality off the list of mental disorders.
l0lr TIL the model for Rosie the Riveter worked as a riveter for only a couple weeks before quitting and marrying a dentist
MYNV TIL Jonathan Swift wrote a poem about the filthiness of a woman’s dressing room, which caused a woman to write a poem about him visiting prostitutes and being impotent.