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TIL modern nuclear submarines are so well cloaked that in 2009, two French and British nuclear ballistic missle subs collided in the atlantic ocean by pure chance. Moving very slowly, they were't able to detect each other just feet apart.

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ALXd TIL that anyone with a BMI of 40 or more is not allowed to adopt a child from China
yQYVw TIL: In 1884, before there were ambulances for people in San Francisco, there was an ambulance for horses. It came to the aid of six in its first month of service.
woYG1 TIL that J. M. Barrie "invented" the name Wendy in his novel Peter Pan. Although it saw some minor use a a nickname for centuries, as a given name it was only popularized by the novel. Barry was inspired by his friend's daughter, who called him her "fwiendy-wendy", as she could not pronounce "r's".
XE9R6 TIL the combined wealth in the world is $360 trillion.
v1kX8 TIL that Rome is the only city in the world that hosts both the embassy of China (PRC) and the embassy of Taiwan (ROC) and this is because Italy recognises PRC while Vatican recognises ROC.