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TIL that Kamikaze suicide attacks of WWII were not limited to aircraft. There were also submarines (Kairyu), human piloted torpedoes (Kaiten), speedboats (Shinyo), and underwater divers (Fukuryu).

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vKPx TIL that 54% of girls under age 16 have experienced some form of unwanted sexual attention; 24% have experienced rape or coercive sex; 17% have experienced incest. The rate of sexual abuse for girls with disabilities is quadruple that of the national average. (Today is Women’s day.)
ADeVd TIL: The US military would spray experimental missiles with shark oil so they could recover any debris with the help of sniffer dogs trained to follow the shark scent.
yQ6oJ TIL Although considered a contemporary classic, the original Back to the Future script was rejected more than 40 times, was going to be titled Space Man From Pluto, & had a refrigerator as the time machine, not the DeLorean.
4kWmw TIL in 2023, Michael Oher, the basis of the film The Blind Side, sued his adopted family - the Touhys - for tricking him to sign a deal that paid them millions of dollars in royalties from the film while he received nothing. The Touhys terminated the conservatorship, which they were "happy to end".
xwn7 TIL The hook from the Jay Z song 99 Problems was originally recorded by Ice T in his song of the same name back in 1993. The lyric “I got 99 Problems but a bitch ain’t one” was coined during a conversation between Ice T and Brother Marquis of 2 Live Crew.