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TIL Winston Churchill, along with many of the Royal Navy’s highest ranking men, came very close to death after the ship they were on was fired at by a U-boat with 3 torpedoes. All three struck the hull of the ship, but all failed to explode.

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jEMj TIL in the real story of Mulan, after she is given leave from the army, she is summoned back to the palace to be the khan’s concubine(a sex-slave). Rather than suffer this fate, she committed suicide.
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