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oRpVo Today I learned: That just 2 months after 9/11, another commercial airliner, American Airlines Flight 587, crashed into a NYC neighborhood in Queens after a critical mechanical/piloting failure just minutes after take off. 265 people were killed and several homes were completely destroyed.
D1pMj TIL Union artillery officer Alonzo Cushing was killed after being wounded twice during the Battle of Gettysburg, refusing evacuation from his position atop Cemetery Ridge during Pickett’s Charge. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor 151 years later, the longest wait for any recipient.
d8wN7 TIL that a British inventor created an earthquake bomb, which was used in WWII to great effect to destroy bomb-proof installations such as submarine pens. The same inventor later invented a bouncing bomb, which would skip across water to avoid torpedo nets and destroy dams
Yp8oB TIL Nintendo released 3 special DSi XL consoles for LovePlus+, a high school anime dating sim. They featured skimpy top cover decals for each of the 3 in-game 'girlfriends' and came with a copy of the game. The bundle was exclusive to Japan.
VM9GD TIL there is one prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials that is still living, Ben Ferencz, he turns 101 in March.