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TIL there are ships which provide electricity
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TIL that 3 weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Navy had submarines off the coast of San Francisco ready for a Christmas Day attack on the Golden Gate Bridge. One single torpedo was fired and was found buried on Marshall Beach next to the bridge in 1946
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TIL mail order shops sold nose hair trimmers cheaply to build lists of people too embarrassed to buy them in person, and therefore very likely to buy more embarrassing things via the mail.
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TIL translations of the first “Austin Powers” maintain Alotta Fagina’s suggestive name, but differently; in Finnish her name means “always horny,” Polish has her as “wavy vagina,” and Canadian French makes her “happy clitoris.”
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TIL that Ozzy Osbourne was bullied by Black Sabbath’s guitarist Tony Iommi in school , and he was only invited into the band after band mate Geezer Butler saw Ozzy advertising in a music shop that he had a P.A.
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TIL everyone now has full access to their own Quantum Computer