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TIL The story of Madame Bovary was partly based off of the sensational news story that told of the life of French woman Delphine Delamare

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YpRnA TIL in WWII German command ordered encircled US troops in Bastogne to surrender, to which Gen Anthony McAuliffe replied simply: NUTS! When Col Joseph Harper delivered the message to the German commander, the commander asked what the message meant. Harper replied, "In plain English? Go to hell."
nGWB TIL Microsoft Makes More Money From Samsung Than From Skype, Windows Phone, and Xbox Combined
4krX6 TIL an estimated 200,000 underage American men and women lied about their age in order to enlist during World War II.
Br6Zx TIL that modern military submarines have a rescue buoy that releases during an emergency, and it remains attached to the submarine by a cable. Once on the surface it can indicate to rescuers the position of the submarine, and may include a telephone for communication with the trapped submariners.
8eYLV TIL about "Conan the Bacterium", an organism that's been around for about a billion years more than us, can survive almost anything and will likely outlast us all.