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TIL: Russians have portable deapth charge launcher

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A8Dn TIL that Steve Wozniak is a collector of phone numbers. After acquiring the number 888-8888 for his cell phone, it proved to be unusable because babies playing with phones kept on calling it.
xJOk TIL the last man to be executed by firing squad in the USA asked for a bulletproof vest as his last wish
loBGK TIL: A man was jailed for 28 years for a murder he didn’t commit until it was discovered the forensics were wrong. They misidentified a hair found on the crime to be his, when it was a dog’s.
YpZOG TIL when Sega of America was localizing the first Sonic the Hedgehog game, they had to create a canonical backstory for him compiled in "The Sonic Bible". He was a poor hedgehog from Nebraska named Sonny. His dad died because of toxic waste and his friend Dr Robotnik turned evil after eating an egg.
VgxG TIL By typing “=lorem()” in Microsoft Word and pressing enter, you can generate several pages of nonsense