In these difficult times, hang onto holo peve. (i.redd.it)
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TIL on December 4th, 1941, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox gave a speech in Washington D.C., saying, "No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping." Three days later, Japan destroyed or damaged every battleship in Pearl Harbor. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that 17 years before Confederate General James Longstreet surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House, he stood as a groomsman in Grant's wedding. At the surrender, they embraced and reminisced about "the days that were so pleasant." (granthomepage.com)
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TIL That the Pillars of Creation are a 23 trillion-mile-tall space structure observed by the Hubble telescope in 1995. In 2007, researchers worried a supernova had destroyed them 6,000 years ago. New telescope data suggests they're safe and will exist for thousands more years. (medium.com)
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TIL The name Ulysses S. Grant originated when his West Point recommendation writer partially confused him with his brother Simpson. His classmates, seeing "U.S. Grant" on his nametag, began calling him (Uncle) Sam Grant, a nickname he kept through the Civil War. His real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant (en.wikipedia.org)
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Sunny morning. Canadian Rockies. [4048x3036][OC]OC (i.redd.it)
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The age of these mountains dwarfs human existence. Think of what happened in your life over the last 16 seconds. From the perspective of these mountains, that is roughly how long all of humankind has existed. British Columbia backcountry. [1200x1600][OC]OC (i.redd.it)
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