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TIL that Ramones singer Joey Ramone was born with a parasitic twin attached to his back.

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Oo5Z6 TIL that in 1998 USA, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers.
OwLR TIL that early Romans thought that trousers were ‘effeminate’ -they much preferred their manlier tunics
ADxkg TIL about the BOKA Vanguard, is the world’s largest semi-submersible heavy lift ship and is typically used to lift offshore oil and gas structures. These pictures have to be seen to be believed as she “picks up” the cruise ship, Carnival Vista.
kOLk7 TIL: just after the end of WW2 Sweden and Greece both had thousands of sightings of UFO's called Ghost Rockets. The US government took them seriously enough that Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower sent war hero Gen. Jimmy Doolittle to Sweden to investigate in 1946.
9YEPX TIL the HMS Perseus submarine, was hit and sunk on December 6, 1941. John Capes and 3 others opened the escape hatch, and using an early type of oxygen breather, swam 170ft to the surface. Capes was the only survivor. He then spent 18 months on a Greek island evading capture from the Italian army.