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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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xQp5 TIL that when faced with the possibility of going out of business, Subaru saved its business by marketing its cars directly to lesbians.
dDVnE TIL of Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, a Saudi who was the heaviest man alive at 1,340 lb. When Saudi King Abdullah heard of this, Khalid was ordered to a medical center in Riyadh. In about four years, Khalid would weigh 150 lb.
j6ZZR TIL at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the New York City Ballet was on tour in the USSR and the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in the USA
dDW7 TIL that only 2 of the contestants from Hell’s Kitchen received their promised prizes and that one, Dave, was treated like a line Cook and left shortly after.
lp4N TIL that South Korea has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and the suicide peak is reached everytime a celebrity commits suicide.