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TIL US Navy's submarine periscope controls used to cost $38,000, but were replaced by $20 xbox controllers.

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xV5rk TIL that "Lethal White" syndrome is an autosomal genetic disorder that is most common in American Paint Horses where foals are born all white with blue eyes and appear to be normal but internally they have a non functioning colon which results in a very painful death after only a few days.
eEZg TIL John C. Reilly appeared in three of the five films nominated for Best Picture at the 2002 Academy Awards (Chicago, Gangs of New York, and The Hours)
5Yx09 TIL that George Lucas told Carrie Fisher not to wear a bra under her white dress in Star Wars A New Hope "because nobody wears underwear in Space".
P7ne TIL there was a woman who survived a gas chamber, three Nazi concentration camps, testing by the infamous Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele, a death march, and shared a barracks with the dying Dutch teenager Anne Frank.
gmP8 TIL that the US has invaded Canada twice, and lost both times.