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Mejn0 TIL 3 months after Pearl Harbor, a lone Japanese submarine shelled coastal California. In response, the US fired over 1400 anti-aircraft shells into the air and sent 500 troops to defend and secure Walt Disney Studios.
vPg9K TIL The sinking of the USS Panay and 3 Standard Oil tankers carrying 600 fleeing Chinese civilians ships during the battle of Nanking in 1937. 3 americans and an unknown number of Chinese civilians would die. FDR would order footage of the sinking edited to lower Japanese culpability and avoid war.
PY7GO TIL in the movie The Princess Bride, when Count Rugen knocks Westly played by Cary Elwes on the head the tap came a little too hard and Elwes was knocked legitimately unconscious; he later awoke in the hospital. It's that take, with Elwes actually passing out, that appears in the film.
wL51E TIL that the US and Russian sections of the International Space Station use different shields to protect against orbital debris, and if the station is under threat, the crew all move to the Russian section because it is considered to be better protected.
Zo4a TIL in 2002, South Park made an episode about how The Simpsons had already adapted nearly every possible story, called “Simpsons Already Did It”. The Simpsons have now made more episodes since that time than they had before it aired.