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TIL JFK ordered 1200 of his favorite cuban cigars the night before he signed the cuban trade embargo

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16JXr TIL That in 1774 James Cook charted Sandy Island off the coast of New Caledonia. Despite its' inclusion in official maps and charts for over two centuries in 2012 an Australian survey vessel proved the island had never actually existed and may have been a 'pumice raft' floating in the area.
rN0jo TIL that GameBoy and GameBoy Color cartridges have a watch battery inside of them to power the chip for savefiles.
NyLe TIL Tanks from WW1 were originally to be called Landships but the factory workers who were building them referred to them as Tanks because they resembled steel water tanks and the British concerned with secrecy kept that name.
OonnL TIL World War I was the first war in which mass media and propaganda played a significant role. It was one the keys in convincing people to fight in the war. At the start of the war the British cut Germany’s undersea cables to influence the reporting of the war to the world.
4XLQw TIL that a single dynasty has occupied the position of Emperor of Japan continually for over two thousand years, so long that the first 28 emperors are likely legendary.