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TIL the US Navy replaced expensive and clunky periscope controls on submarines with Xbox 360 controllers, which reduced training time from hours to minutes.

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gMlM8 TIL about Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko, a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II, credited with at least 309 confirmed kills. She is regarded being in the top five military snipers of all time and the most successful female sniper in history. Lyudmila was nicknamed "Lady Death".
0wEVp TIL The Cherokee Nation fought with the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
91N7 TIL leaked emails from Sony revealed talks of taking serious action and potentially sueing Bill Murray for not participating in the new Ghostbusters film.
Dd8V TIL The US Air Force seeded clouds to extend the monsoon season over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Vietnam between 1967 and 72. This lead to a 1977 international treaty outlawing weather warfare.
4kk15 TIL there is a Peppa Pig episode that is banned in Australia for saying 'spiders can't hurt you'