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TIL Swedish Navy detected underwater sounds suspected to be hostile Russian submarines in the 80s. The suspicion escalated to a diplomatic conflict between Sweden and Russia. It turned out later that these sounds came from fish farts, a discovery which led to the Ig Nobel Prize.

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kJY0W TIL Parental incarceration is associated with numerous health problems in young adulthood, including depression, PTSD, anxiety, and various others
ZpZ1p TIL: In 1986, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) held that US activities in Nicaragua, including laying mines in its ports, had violated international law. The US refused to participate in the proceedings and then rescinded its 40-year consent to the court's compulsory jurisdiction.
7rBr7 TIL The band Foo Fighters was named after the term foo fighter which was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations.
VBE68 TIL there was a psychiatric hospital in Utah that created a haunted house for the public during Halloween season well into the 1990’s.
8evpK [TIL] The Frisbee was created in the 1870's by someone throwing a pie tin. Fun fact, the pie company still exists and still sells pies.