TIL that the Yamato, the largest battleship ever built, was on a 3,000-man kamikaze mission to beach herself on Okinawa before she was sunk by US forces in April of 1945.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 05:06AM by mortimerrylon
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Japanese battleship Yamato
Yamato-class battleship
TIL Peter Norman, the Australian silver medalist photographed in the iconic 1968 Olympics photo alongside two black athletes with a raised fist wore a badge in support of their protest, and turned down a lucrative job offer during the 2000 Sydney Olympics because he refused to renounce his actions.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 05:43AM by MajesticBread9147
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Peter Norman
Peter George Norman (15 June 1942 – 3 October 2006) was an Australian track athlete. He won the silver medal in the 200 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, with a time of 20.06 seconds. This remains an Oceanian record. He was a five-time national…
TIL Sean Bean Has Died in Over a Quarter of His On-Screen Appearances.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 08:52AM by danbeardan
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ScreenRant
Every On-Screen Sean Bean Death
Sean Bean can't stop, won't stop.
TIL: The Constitution made no provision for replacing Vice Presidents who died or departed before finishing their terms. As a result, the office has been vacant for almost 38 years in the nation’s history.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 06:05AM by theotherbogart
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Vice Presidents That History Forgot
The U.S. vice presidency has been filled by a rogues gallery of mediocrities, criminals and even corpses
TIL that convinced of inevitable war with the USA, Canada's first Prime Minister called for an army of Sikhs to invade California on behalf of Canada.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 08:20AM by Fausto_Alarcon
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CBC
That time Sir John A. Macdonald called for 'an army of Sikhs' to save Canada | CBC News
A new poster celebrating Sikh Heritage Month features a quote from 1867 in which Sir John A. Macdondald called for 'an army of Sikhs' to be sent from India to protect the country.
TIL Rockall is an uninhabited islet in the United Kingdom's exclusive economic zone (EEC). In 1997 the British recognized Rockall wasn't an island and gave up all EEC claims it could have made, Rockall is the only case of a state voluntarily downgrading an insular feature to "a rock".
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 02:08PM by jamescookenotthatone
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Rockall Bank dispute
Several states have claimed interests over the sea bed adjoining Rockall, an uninhabitable granite islet which is located within the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the United Kingdom. Ireland, Denmark, Iceland, and the United Kingdom have all made submissions…
TIL Jeff Bezos' biological father was a unicycle hockey player called Ted Jorgensen and the president of the world's first unicycle hockey club.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 04:42PM by yorrellew
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Ted Jorgensen
American unicycle hockey player & biological father of Jeff Bezos (1944-2015)
TIL the snowiest place on Earth is in Japan, in Aomori and the surrounding area, known for having some of the heaviest snowfall in the world.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 04:08PM by jacknunn
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Aomori
Aomori (Japanese: 青森市, Hepburn: Aomori-shi, IPA: [aoꜜmoɾi]; lit. "Blue Forest City") is the capital city of Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. As of 1 April 2022[update], the city had an estimated population of 272,752 in 136,781 households…
TIL of the Explorer Douglas Mawson. Desperation led him to eat one of the sled dogs. Soon after the skin began peeling off his entire body due to acute vitamin A poisoning from the dog's liver.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 05:41PM by RJWolfe
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Most Terrible Polar Exploration Ever: Douglas Mawson’s Antarctic Journey
A century ago, Douglas Mawson saw his two companions die and found himself stranded in the midst of Antarctic blizzards
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TIL that Thomas Edison developed the concrete to build Yankee Stadium in 1922 before his company went bankrupt shortly after completion.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 05:31PM by WeUsedToBeNumber10
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Edison Portland Cement Company
The Edison Portland Cement Company was a venture by Thomas Edison that helped to improve the Portland cement industry. Edison was developing an iron ore milling process and discovered a market in the sale of waste sand to cement manufacturers. He decided…
TIL Diogenes was a Greek philosopher who was known for living in a ceramic jar, disrupting Plato's lessons by eating loudly, urinating on people who insulted him, and pointing his middle finger at random people.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 08:14PM by NegativeSector
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Diogenes
4th-century BC Greek Cynic philosopher
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TIL the force needed to use an English longbow effectively means that skeletons of longbowmen surviving from the period often show enlarged left arms and bone spurs in the arms and shoulders
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English longbow
type of ranged weapon
TIL: The "Leatherman" was a person dressed in a leather suit who would repeat a 365 mile route for over 30 years. He would stop at towns for supplies and lived in various "Leatherman caves". When archeologists dug up his grave in 2011, they found no remains, only coffin nails.
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 09:31PM by Flares117
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Leatherman (vagabond)
famous American vagabond of unknown and disputed identity
TIL "DARVO" is a reaction pattern recognized by some researchers as common when abusers are held accountable for their behavior: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim & Offender. It was first theorized in 1997 by Jennifer Freyd who called it "frequently used and effective."
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Submitted June 10, 2023 at 12:19AM by MustacheEmperor
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DARVO
acronym used to describe a common strategy of abusers
TIL depression can and has been transferred from humans to mice through gut microbiome
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Submitted June 09, 2023 at 11:56PM by Large_Dragonfruit_37
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TIL that Shaquille O'Neal was offered and declined the role of John Coffey in The Green Mile.
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Submitted June 10, 2023 at 02:32AM by attempted-anonymity
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CBS Sports
Shaquille O'Neal reveals why he turned down role in 'The Green Mile'
The 15-time NBA All-Star says he nearly shared the silver screen with Tom Hanks
TIL that the Nintendo Power Line, a hotline I used to call in the 90s where you could get hints if you're stuck on a Nintendo game, was operational all the way to 2010 when it finally closed down
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Submitted June 10, 2023 at 03:14AM by Disastrous-Ad-6696
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Nintendo Power
American video game magazine
TIL that Varina Davis, the First Lady of the Confederate States of America, was personally opposed to slavery and doubted the Confederacy could ever succeed. After her husband’s death, she moved to New York City and wrote that “the right side had won the Civil War.”
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Submitted June 10, 2023 at 04:47AM by sunnymushroom
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Varina Davis
Second wife of President Jefferson Davis and First Lady of the Confederate States
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TIL that when a Roman legion was pulled out of Caledonia ~90AD, they were ordered to destroy the entire garrison and leave nothing of use. They broke every ceramic jar, burned everything flammable, and took great care to hide 7 tons of handmade nails. The nails were not discovered until 1961.
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Submitted June 10, 2023 at 05:22AM by EtOHMartini
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Glasgowsteelnail
The story of Inchtuthil
Information on cut nails manufactured by Glasgow Steel Nail Co.
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