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TIL HMS Discovery started out on Cook's third voyage three weeks after the HMS Resolution because the HMS Discovery's captain, Charles Clerke, had been in a debtor’s prison.

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oBJgR TIL the shrimp cocktail was invented in a bar on Boston Harbor in 1941. It was first prepared as a drunken “let’s put gross shit together in a glass and dare people to drink it” concoction with shrimp, ketchup, and vodka, but it proved to be delicious while hammered.
E1Q6x TIL "The Full Monty" originally refers to a full English breakfast. It was named for WWII British Army general Bernard Montgomery who, during the North African campaign, started every day with a full English breakfast.
e0AZ6 TIL radioactive boars run wild in abandoned towns around the Fukushima nuclear disaster zone, and occasionally attack people.
E1e7p TIL the USSR used a nuclear bomb to put out a gas well fire.
k9rE TIL that in 1937, a gas leak in the basement at the local school in New London, Texas caused a massive explosion which killed almost 300 children and teachers, the deadliest school disaster in US history. Adolf Hitler even sent his condolences by telegram.