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TIL that AA has a 5-10% success rate. About the same as anyone trying to quit by themselves.

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WkyRY TIL when German WWII U-boats would cruise below the surface with diesel engines running, waves swamping the snorkel tubes would cause the engines to suck air from the boat to keep running, producing a partial vacuum. Crews reported it was very painful, and eardrums were sometimes ruptured.
neJJY TIL Iceland has a Horse Naming Commission that oversees horse names across the country to ensure that no horse gets a foreign, vulgar, or inappropriate name.
wXnE TIL - One of the longest recorded sniper kill is nearly 1.75 miles and was shot by an Australian in Afghanistan last year.
g1P7 TIL that the first civilzation (Sumerians) performed math in units of 60, which is why we measure time in 60 second/minute intervals.
ANglo TIL the word Dollar is the Anglicized version of the German word Thaler, meaning from the valley. Thaler is the shortened version of Joachimthalers, a mine town in the Czech Republic (formerly Bohemia) where silver coins were minted.