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TIL that the USS Tang (SS-306) was a U.S. submarine used during World War II. It was built and launched in 1943, and was sunk by a circular run of her own torpedo in 1944.

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rkAe TIL “health insurance” was actually cooked up as a ploy by hospitals to fill empty beds. The real impetus to making insurance commonplace is when they made premiums tax-free if paid by employers. Before insurance the average person spent $5 per year on medical care.
9PbX TIL to clear the streets for President Kennedy’s Inauguration the army used flamethrowers to melt the snow.
yQpMe TIL Benazir Bhutto (11th, 13th PM of Pakistan) and Liaquat Ali Khan (1st PM of Pakistan) were both assassinated in the same park and rushed to the same hospital. The doctor who attempted to revive Bhutto in 2007 was the son of the same doctor who tried to revive Khan in 1951.
ELPX TIL that Duncan Jones, the director of Moon, Source Code and the Warcraft movie, is the son of the late David Bowie
DQ1jp TIL some plants make extrafloral nectaries (non-flower parts with nectar in) to attract insects that help protect them