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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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X0OvE TIL that the name of the orchid comes from the Greek word for testicle, "ὄρχις", because of the shape of the twin tubers in some plants of the genus Orchis. This resemblance is also why the Middle English word for certain orchids was "bollockwort", from "bollock" (testicle) and "wort" (plant).
njaY TIL that King Faisal of Saudi Arabia abolished slavery and freed 1,682 slaves…in 1962.
PXQe TIL A defector used balloons to air drop thousands of copies of the film “The Interview” into North Korea.
oDGA TIL: That the voice of male UK Siri, Jon Briggs, did not know he was the voice of Siri until he recognized his own voice on a iPhone 4s commercial.
epVLg TIL that the Ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras was arrested, exiled, and was almost put to death for saying that the sun and moon were objects, and not gods.