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TIL Persistence of a 12-year old boy led to clearing the name of the USS Indianapolis' captain more than 50 years after the tragedy. The Congress passed a Sense of Congress resolution exonerating the captain.

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wonyP TIL in 1987, three unidentified individuals hijacked two Chicago television signals wearing a Max Headroom mask. Where the man was seen and heard uttering garbled remarks before dropping his pants, partially exposing his buttocks, and was then spanked with a flyswatter by a woman.
4XDJw TIL that chocolate with methamphetamine was available in Nazi Germany.
j68yN TIL about a chair made from the wood of the medieval London bridge with a seat made from a foundation stone of the same bridge.
4kKab TIL the meme of a person talking to a brick wall is Maronzio Vance. A comedian who has a solo podcast where he talks in front of a brick wall.
4n86 TIL C.S. Lewis after being raised in a Christian family, became an atheist at 15, and later became a Christian again after a long discussion with J.R.R Tolkien and Hugo Dyson. He wrote about this in his book Surprised by Joy.