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TIL if the US was a monarcy and George Washington was named king, Robert E Lee V would have a claim to the throne today.

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P1DvG TIL that the Maori name for the New Zealand Army is Ngati Tumatauenga, which translates to "Tribe of Tumatauenga" (the Maori god of war)
mj6y TIL When pirate Jean Lafitte saw the governor advertising a $500 reward for his capture, Lafitte offered $5,000 for the capture of the governor.
KYBWB TIL Ted Fujita, meteorology scientist and father of the Fujita tornado scale, had his life saved by the weather. He was in Kokura on the day of the second atomic bombing. Kokura was the first target, which couldn’t be done due to bad weather, they went with the secondary target of Nagasaki.
0dd11 TIL Disney World is legally allowed to build a nuclear plant in Florida under a 1960s law.
9YnJr TIL that during the peak of the cold war, one of the tasks given to Niel Armstrong was to place two Soviet medals on the moon to honour their fallen Soviet competitors.