Post * 0dOwA — Curious Curator

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TIL that Fred Astaire danced in Battlestar Gallatica with Anne Jeffreys in the episode 'The Man With Nine Live'

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awMDb TIL that in the whole history of submarine warfare, there was only ever one underwater submarine battle. That battle was also the only time a submerged submarine sunk another submerged submarine.

nWrvB TIL electric car batteries are not one big battery but thousands of smaller batteries connected together

NwO6 TIL The United States only has 36 lbs of plutonium left. The Mars Curiosity rover uses 10 lbs of it all for itself.

XErDX TIL of Harold Brown, who in 1978, plummeted 29 floors inside the San Francisco Transamerica building, shouting ""whoopee" all the way down. He survived the fall and was heard singing Camptown Races in the ambulance.

Brlkx TIL the U.S. Navy employed a dolphin, Tuffy, to regularly deliver tools and mail to scientists living in an experimental underwater laboratory.