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TIL when Hunter S. Thompson died, his ashes were shot out of a cannon by Johnny Depp to the tune of “Mr. Tambourine Man” by Bob Dylan

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awMDb TIL that in the whole history of submarine warfare, there was only ever one underwater submarine battle. That battle was also the only time a submerged submarine sunk another submerged submarine.
69Am8 TIL In 1990, a game called "KZ Manager" was released, where you play the part of a Nazi Concentration Camp Commandant. The game is a 'rollercoaster tycoon' style management game and is banned in Germany.
P1l0G TIL the mayor of Knox County, TN is a 7 foot tall WWE wrestler known as Kane
wLDJ1 TIL a suicide bomber with explosives in his laptop boarded the Somali owned Daallo Airlines in 2016 intending to blow the whole aircraft. Twenty minutes after the takeoff, the bomb exploded, creating a hole in the plane, and the suicide bomber was sucked out of the plane. He was the only fatality.
VMeg4 TIL that in 1987, Guns n Rose’s Axl Rose slept with drummer Steve Adler’s girlfriend, recorded it, and added it into their hit song, Rocket Queen