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TIL that there is evidence that the British Admiralty deliberately send the luxury liner Lusitania into waters patrolled by German U-boats in the hope that the ship would be attacked and sunk with Americans on board, thus drawing the US into WWI. 1,198 people drowned, inc. many women and children

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OovB4 TIL of Jean Van Landeghem, a Belgian man who has been repeatedly pranked with pizza deliveries for nearly a decade, and he does not know who is sending them.
VB6Kk TIL Coca-Cola was exempt from the 1942 sugar rations by promising service members a bottle of Coke for five cents wherever they were
VMxPk TIL that there is a recurring provision prohibiting a redesign of the $1 bill. This is done to dissuade calls to change the bill and because of the cost to the vending machine industry
QNPy6 Til about Storegga landslides, series of submarine landslides in the Norwegian Sea that triggered massive tsunamis that hit the British isles between 2000 and 8000 years ago.
JYNl TIL Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.