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TIL that when a Russian mobster asked a friend in government if it was possible to buy a military submarine he was asked “with missiles or without missiles?”

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b6RE4 TIL that there was a Ferris Bueller TV show that ran for one season in 1990 and starred Jennifer Aniston
dXv7 TIL there is a Spanish guy who got a North Korean passport and runs the whole international DPRK propaganda campaign almost on his own including the Korean Friendship Association and most probably /r/pyongyang
J8yv TIL in Dragon Ball Z, the name of the spirit bomb (Genki Dama) is a pun on “denki gama”, meaning “electric rice cooker” in Japanese
LkJDV TIL that it rains diamonds in abundance on Saturn and Jupiter. These two planets are the largest in our solar system and are filled with gas with extreme negative temperatures that under the effect of lightning produced by thunderstorms produce more than 1000 tons of diamond every year.
oyGY TIL There was an armed interceptor version of the SR-71 called the YF-12. It was the largest manned interceptor ever made, and held several world records for speed and altitude. It was cancelled after the secretary of defense held funding so it could be spent in the Vietnam war.