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TIL Great Britain was an enthusiatic supporter of the Monroe Doctrine (stopping further colonisation of the Americas). In fact, for many years after the doctrine took effect, Britain was the only nation enforcing it, as the U.S. lacked sufficient naval capability.

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 7:06 am

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TIL of Commander James H. Ward, the first US Naval officer to be killed in the American Civil War. A destroyer named after him fired the first American shots of the Pacific Theater in WW2, sinking a Japanese submarine. Actor Andy Devine is his great-grandson.

by whatilearned May 27, 2022, 2:47 am

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TIL in 1966, Dr Cyril Wecht was the first person to discover that President JFK’s brain had gone missing from the National Archives after his official autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland, 1963. The chief pathologist in Kennedy’s autopsy later admitted he destroyed autopsy notes.

by whatilearned May 26, 2022, 5:55 am

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TIL: About the naval term – broom at the masthead. It meant that a vessel had made a clean sweep of enemy vessels. Ships literally hung a broom from the mast of a ship. Commonly used in WW2, it dates back to the 17th century.

by whatilearned May 21, 2022, 3:24 am

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TIL that the naval ensign of the Indian Navy continues to contain the flag of England (Cross of St George) defaced with India’s national flag as a canton (in the upper left quarter).

by whatilearned May 1, 2022, 8:41 am

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TIL Future Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee worked in Naval Intelligence during World War II alongside Ian Fleming.

by whatilearned April 29, 2022, 6:03 pm

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Mt favorite naval joke!

by cringeyjokesman April 19, 2022, 10:50 pm

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TIL that because Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle’s B25 took off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet to bomb Tokyo in 1942, he was honorarily authorized to wear gold Naval Aviator Wings in uniform.

by whatilearned April 14, 2022, 5:15 am

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TIL the US Navy was going to name a submarine the USS Corpus Christi, after the city in Texas, but Catholic politicians objected to a navy ship called the USS Body of Christ. It was instead named the USS City of Corpus Christi, a formulation which remains unique in the names of Naval ships.

by whatilearned April 2, 2022, 9:58 pm

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TIL that the US Navy had the largest naval fleet in history with 6768 ships at the end of World War II

by whatilearned March 19, 2022, 3:48 pm

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TIL the French naval ensign was a solid white flag from 1638-1790 and 1814-1830.

by whatilearned March 17, 2022, 12:19 am

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TIL In 2011 the Belly Button Biodiversity project was created to study bacteria in the naval. Researchers found 2,368 different species from just 66 people, half of which were previously unknown. The average person hosted 67 different species, but no single species was common to every person.

by whatilearned March 15, 2022, 9:21 pm

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