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TIL RAF pilots mistakenly sank ships carrying concentration camp survivors, killing almost 10,000 survivors.

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oRJ0L TIL about Ssgt Reckless, a beer drinking war horse who, amoung other honors, had 2 Purple Hearts, and had to essentially be smuggled to the US after the Korean War when officials expressed preferences to leaving her behind or "destroying" her.
ADdJw TIL in 1964 the Rolling Stones wrote and performed a jingle for a Rice Krispies commercial.
N7yGP TIL: In the UK, it is an offence to “drive through a puddle causing pedestrians to be splashed”.
Z8Nwo TIL in 1927, during the worst flood in the history of the Mississippi River Valley, Herbert Hoover and the Red Cross set up "concentration camps" comprised of African Americans forced to work at gunpoint on the levee, and created a media campaign to cover it up.
RVg4 TIL the assassination of the Archduke of Austria, which set off WWI, was due to a wrong turn. After a first failed attempt and the conspirators giving up on the mission, the Archduke decided to visit the injured in the hospital and accidentally drove past one of them after taking a wrong turn.