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TIL the US Army does not keep any record of "confirmed kills". Servicemen routinely report successful hits to their superiors and personally keep track.

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P1QJw TIL that during WWII, the Japanese battleship Mutsu suddenly exploded at anchor and sank. The Japanese navy investigated and found that the sinking was probably caused by a suicidally disgruntled crewman.
LQx5m TIL of Ziad Fazah. He claims to be able to speak, read and understand 59 languages.
6EJZ7 TIL at the U.S. Open and other U.S.-based tennis tournaments, the men and women play with different balls; the men play with the slower, heavy-duty felt while the women play with the faster, regular-duty felt
y49e TIL that Coke Zero is specifically marketed toward men, who were shown to associate Diet Coke with femininity.
rmx TIL that a rapist fooled DNA tests by surgically implanting a tube filled with blood in his arm and tricking the laboratory technician into having a blood sample taken from it