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TIL the HMS Belfast, which served in D-Day and fought in the Korean War, expected to be scrapped in 1967, so the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum, and the Ministry of Defence all decided that it'd be preserved. Now, it is a museum on the River Thames.

17PD TIL Bats give each other blowjobs.
Y97v TIL Bill Gates was the one who saved Apple Computer from bankruptcy, in 1997.
gXe9 TIL that the first U.S flag planted on the moon was knocked over by exhaust
Y7xev TIL of Säkkijärven polkka. A Finnish folk-song played repeatedly over radio during the Soviet-Finnish War to block radio-controlled mines
xW5w TIL that Roald Dahl was a fighter ace during WW2.