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TIL that when the Brazilian battleship São Paulo was being towed across the Atlantic to be scrapped, her towlines were snapped by a storm and she drifted away. Despite British and American aircraft scouring the Atlantic for her, no sign of her or her 8 crew members were ever found.

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