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TIL Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has found the wreckage of 1 of Japan’s largest battleships after an 8 year long search.The 73,000-ton “Musashi” was 1 of the most powerful battleships ever built. “Its discovery will… bring closure to the families of those lost."Allen said.

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E1E5x TIL The giant underground ancient city of Derinkuyu was dicsovered when resident of the area found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home.
m1XYY TIL The chocolate bar Milky Way is called Mars Bar by the non-US world, and what the US calls Three Musketeers is called Milky Way everywhere else
wLeRP TIL that some medical devices have to be built from a diminishing amount of steel made before WWII, because all steel afterwards is contaminated with radiation.
9w5LM TIL of the Gunnbjörn's skerries. A group of small islands roughly halfway between Greenland and Iceland, they were colonized by Norse settlers, with a successful colony of 18 farms by 1391. By 1456, they reportedly "completely burned up" and disappeared, presumably destroyed in a volcanic event.
E70X TIL that had JFK not been assassinated, the Soviet Union and the U.S. would have created a Space Union which would have resulted in both the US and the Soviet Union landing on the moon together (at 12:11)