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TIL the US Navy replaced expensive and clunky periscope controls on submarines with Xbox 360 controllers, which reduced training time from hours to minutes

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6EvMw TIL the "bell" at the beginning of Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" isn't actually a bell toll, but an anvil being hit by a hammer
mxEby TIL Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
p84LG TIL Joseph Stalin banned the field of genetics as capitalistic 'bourgeois pseudoscience', with fatal consequences for many Soviet scientists.
oB5bE TIL Continuous ingestion of Colloidal Silver [an alternative medicine] can cause skin to turn an irreversible blue/grey color - a condition called Argyria
KaQ6 TIL The reason many critics say the James Joyce novel Finnegan’s Wake is nearly “unreadable” and “incomprehensible” is because it’s an attempt to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams.