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TIL there have been several documented cases where golfers were accidentally killed by the shaft of their golf club after it broke.

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J1Rdl TIL: That in 1953 the town of Neversink, New York was completely submerged underwater after dams for what would become the Neversink Reservoir were finished.
955p TIL that four submarines from various nations around the world were all lost a few months apart in 1968. None of the losses were ever explained.
WkOv8 TIL Turtles shed their shells
VMD5G TIL about Wendell Fertig, a US serviceman who rather than surrender with the bulk of US forces during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, “self-promoted” himself to Brigadier General and organized pockets of Filipino fighters and other US serviceman into a highly effective Guerilla force
grXyL TIL Japan successfully floated balloon Bombs into the US during WW2, killing 6 people in Oregon "the war's only fatalities in the continental U.S". But, the US Government did such an effective job of covering it up, Japan thought the attack was a failure.