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TIL if you were a member of the Peace Corps, you are disqualified from working for military intelligence.

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16M9V TIL of the submarine USS Tang. It was hit when it's own torpedo boomeranged. 89 crew with 29 trapped. 13 made it out through a hatch but only 9 made to the surface where they were picked up by the Japanese and taken to a POW camp. They survived the war.
K7j6 TIL, the pen name, Mark Twain, is steamboat slang for 12 feet of water.
VJQm TIL a woman who looks like Casey Anthony was rammed off the road in Oklahoma the week after Anthony was acquitted.
epB16 TIL of Porphyrios, a large whale that wreaked havok on Roman ships outside of Constantinople for 50 years. Emperor Justinian the Great made it an important matter to capture it, though he could not come up with a way to.
YpP6B TIL King George V of the United Kingdom was euthanised by his doctor both to ease the suffering of the King and family - but also to make the announcement in the morning papers, not the evening papers.