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TIL during WW2 US military drove (then)millions of dollars worth of excess vehicles and equipment off the shore of Vanuatu, to make more room for returning troops

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VM9lZ TIL Hipparchia of Maroneia demanded to marry cynic philosopher Crates despite her parents objecting. Crates, removed his clothes in front of her parents and declared "this is the bridegroom and this is his property". They got married and lived in the streets as cynics, often having sex in public
Lkvm9 TIL many MLB players had fathers who played professional baseball but only one had a mother who did-Casey Cadaele
PKNw TIL that in June 1983 British Sea Harrier pilot Sub-Lt Ian Watson lost radio contact with his ship and with one minute of fuel remaining landed his aircraft on the deck of an unsuspecting cargo ship
xVgjB TIL Volkswagen’s most produced part (Part no. 199 398 500 A) is a sausage. The company produced 6.81 million ‘Volkswagen currywursts’ in 2018.
oL47 TIL in 2016, inspired by an ancient toy called a whirligig, Manu Prakash developed the Paperfuge. The hand-powered centrifuge made of paper, string, and plastic weighs about 2 grams, costs less than a quarter to make, and can spin biological samples in circles at an astonishing 125,000 rpm.