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TIL L. Ron Hubbard commanded a sub chaser, fought a nonexistent sub, and shelled Mexico

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VjjZ TIL that the pilot episode for the X-Files spinoff show, The Lone Gunman, was about a government conspiracy to fly a plane into the Twin Towers to start a fake war. The episode aired in March 2001.
b9yo9 TIL four new species of epaulette walking sharks were recently discovered off the coast of Australia and Papua New Guinea which are able to travel short distances over land because of their ability to walk using their pectoral fins and live in low to no oxygen conditions for extended periods of time
XERlQ TIL The actor who played Chozen from Karate Kid 2 now owns a restaurant and has a freaking amazing tv commercial.
19v4 TIL Edgar Allan Poe, Named for His Cousin, Was the First College Football All-American Quarterback
oRpY8 TIL that the United States deployed foxes painted in glowing radium-based paint during WW2 to exploit Japanese fears of 'Kitsune', mythical trickster foxes, to help them win the war. Only during testing in Chesapeake Bay did they realise that paint washes off in water.