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TIL that submarines have become so stealthy that 2 nuclear armed & powered subs collided in the Atlantic Ocean without detecting each other

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98DM TIL that the flashes of color you see in your eye after you rub them are called phosphenes.
8XM8 TIL Don Black, former Grand Wizard of the KKK and founder of Storm Front, was shot in the chest by Jerry Ray, brother of the assassin that killed Martin Luther King Jr.
P1YPJ TIL that the blow-fly of East and Central Africa, commonly infects humans by laying its eggs on wet clothes, left out to dry and a good way to prevent the transfer to a person's skin, is to iron all clothes including underwear, which kills the eggs/larvae.
8apbP TIL Disneyland have cats called "cat members" who roam the park day and night keeping rodents away
QpOp TIL In the original ‘Good Will Hunting’ script, there is a surprise gay sex scene between the two straight leads. It was purposely put there as a test to see if studios actually read the script. Harvey Weinstein was the only producer who mentioned the scene, so his studio got the movie.