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TIL Admiral J.Stockdale was shot down in Vietnam and held prisoner for 7,5 years, 4 of them in solitary. He endured captivity by drawing inspiration from Epictetus, a stoic and former slave who who shrugged off even his own state of slavery as a natural inconvenience that should not concern him

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LkQMd TIL of the "Niihau Incident". After a Japanese Pilot crashed on a remote Hawaiian Island following Pearl Harbor, three Japanese Americans tried to help him escape, taking locals hostage and shooting at one. Their actions may have influenced the decision to intern Japanese Americans during WWII.
pYyLA TIL that the first documented infringement of the Volstead Act was less than an hour after it came into force, when $100,000 worth of whisky was stolen by armed men.
VMvZ8 TIL that there's a standard way of creating false color astronomical images called the Hubble Palette
LLE0 TIL that Ancient Greek cities honored victorious Olympian athletes by demolishing part of the city wall so that, on their return, they wouldn’t have to use the gate like ordinary mortals.
rNdX1 TIL there is no evidence that Viking had horned helmets. Their depiction with horned helmets is a fallacy that began in the 1870s.