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TIL a German U-boat in WWII sunk because of a malfunctioning toilet!

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BrRWr TIL timeless physics is the controversial view that time, as we perceive it, does not exist as anything other than an illusion. Arguably we have no evidence of the past other than our memory of it, and no evidence of the future other than our belief in it.
d8jwr TIL of the Chain Test. For an arch to stand, it must fit into the mirrored shape generated by a chain.
wLnl6 TIL about Alejo Garza Tamez a 77 yo mexican hunter whom on 2010 was given 24 hours, by cartel members, to leave his ranch. Instead he armed himself, waited for them and managed to kill 4 sicarios, injure 2 more and make the rest run away.
78plX TIL that the US is home to a major supervolcano at Yellowstone Caldera. If it erupts again it won't wipe out humanity but could severely alter weather and climate patterns to the point where it caused a new ice age.
1l04 TIL Hitler requested the Shah of Iran to destroy roads and bridges so supplies wouldn’t be sent to Russia in the north, and that Hitler would rebuild these after the war once he won. The Shah refused.