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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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e4m6 TIL John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpsons used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop “drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes”. When California passed an anti-smoking law, he bought the diner booth and installed it in his house.
vPZO4 TIL that the oldest verified supercentenarian lived to 122 and regularly smoked cigarettes up until the age of 117
prkb TIL Second world countries refers to the former socialist, industrial states. I.e. Russia and China
8LNK TIL there is a school board in NY that consists of orthodox religious parents who send their students to private school. Holding the majority, they were able to gut funding and close public schools at the dismay of public school parents, while using funding for their private schools.
We8B TIL that diamonds are not forever because they are less thermodynamically stable than graphite, so over time (likely billions of years) all diamonds will eventually become graphite.