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TIL every year divers replace the White Ensign on the wreck of HMS Royal Oak

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woJ71 TIL about Beal Aerospace. A private space launch company formed in 1997 that could have been SpaceX 20 years earlier if not for NASA changing their mind about private spaceflight at the time.
xVga1 TIL FDR's first vice-president said the vice-presidency "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss." His second VP, Harry Truman, said it was as "useful as a cow's fifth teat."
jdRa TIL The reason most of the pharmaceutical and drug commercials seem the same is because they are handled by the same advertising company.
OGElY TIL Attila the Hun died not in battle, but of a nosebleed after his wedding feast. It is thought he choked on blood.
kOblB TIL that when yakuza boss Tadamasa Goto wanted to have a liver transplant performed in USA in 2001, he donated 100 thousand dollars to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The gangster jumped the queue and got the liver; that year, 186 people in the Los Angeles region died waiting for livers.