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TIL Emmett Till a 14-year-old African-American was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store.

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m1pY TIL nuclear submarine microphones can hear shrimp chewing on their food 100 meters away.
VMlKB TIL that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress voted 388-1 to declare war on Japan. The sole dissenter was Jeannette Rankin, a pacifist and the first woman elected to congress. She said of her decision ""I voted as the mothers would have had me vote."
W7wJo TIL of Luciano Re Cecconi, an Italian football legend, who died in 1977 while pulling a prank on a friend's jewelry store posing as robbers. As the store had actually been robbed, the scared owner shot Cecconi dead. His last words were "It's just a joke! It's just a joke!"
YpL17 TIL: Bananas are one of the better cures for a hangovers.
6EyL7 TIL of U-505, a Type IXC U-boat, that was attacked and successfully captured by a Hunter-Killer task group in 1944. Towed to Bermuda, the submarine was brought to Chicago, Illinois where it was restored and placed on display in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.