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TIL that at the outbreak of WWII the British people killed 750,000 pets in one week

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xl1k TIL that a ship abandoned off the coast of Alaska in 1931 was spotted, still adrift in the Arctic, in 1969
8eexG TIL in 1945 a Nazi U-boat was destroyed because of a malfunctioning toilet
5VQjQ TIL the word dumpster wasn't added to the Scrabble dictionary until 2022 due to it being a trademark before.
VMExZ TIL Joseph Pilates was a German working in England when WW1 broke out. While interned in a prison camp he developed a method of exercise prisoners could perform in confined space using just their own body weight. It worked well and was a hit, and he eventually moved to the US in 1926.
QOO9 TIL there used to be an island called “Slut’s Bush” off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts. The island sank under the ocean by the 1800s.