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TIL that the youngest drill sergeant in the history of the United States Marine Corps was Donald Dunagan, the voice of Bambi.

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8aeWX TIL about the Batavia mutiny. The 340 survivors of a wreck were stranded on an island off the coast of Australia. A pharmacist leading the survivors had dozens massacred and by the time rescue arrived, there had been a battle for a makeshift fort built by survivors and over 100 people were dead
VbLm TIL that Alexandre Vattemare, who created the first cultural exchange system between public libraries and museums, was a ventriloquist who trained as a surgeon, but was refused a diploma after making cadavers seem to speak during surgical exercises.
geK9 TIL in the 1980’s, a one letter typo cost the Yellow Pages $10 million when they misprinted a travel agency’s advertisement for ‘exotic vacations" as “erotic vacations”
RBV4 TIL in the game Fallout 3, there is a nuclear bomb in the middle of a town, which the player can choose to detonate. The Japanese version of the game disables this option.
aE9M TIL the founder of L'Oreal founded and bankrolled a terrorist organization based at the L'Oreal headquarters. On September 11th, 1937, they bombed two buildings to create the impression of a communist conspiracy