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TIL that After Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchhill stated in his diary that the war had just been won.

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LkOAm TIL While attacking a series of machine gun nests during WW2, Daniel Inouye had most his right arm shot off while arming a grenade. He pried the grenade out of his severed hand and destroyed a bunker with it before finishing the last resistance in the bunker with a one-handed Tommy gun burst.
M9gm TIL that Stephen King doesn’t remember writing Cujo because he was blacked out drunk the whole time.
VMgBB TIL Ann Wilson of Heart wrote the song Barracuda after her recording company created a rumor that her sister and her were having an incestuous relationship for publicity. Following a concert, a fan asked how her “lover” was. Enraged, she went directly to her hotel room and began writing the lyrics.
KMyJ TIL Owsley Stanley, the soundguy for the Grateful Dead, was the first person to mass produce LSD, distributing over 1.25 million doses in just two years.
7abr TIL that George W. Bush named The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle as his favorite childhood book. It was published when he was 23 years old.