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TIL Two nuclear weapons lay on the Arctic seabed inside a sunken submarine.

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D1n6J TIL the animatronic whales used in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" were so believable that Paramount Studios got angry letters from people who thought they got dangerously close to real whales to film them.
4k5a TIL- Guinness Brewery wanted to improve the quality of its beer so they hired a statistician to help them. The statistician, William Sealy Gosset, did such a good job his work created the T-Test. The T-Test can be found in most every stats book published today.
9Y6w7 TIL The crew of Planet Earth II filmed the mass birth gathering of Saiga Antelope, only to witness a disease spread and wipe out more than 150,000 antelope within 3 days.
YpONB TIL All clownfish are born male. They have the ability to switch their sex, but will do so only to become the dominant female of a group.The change is irreversible.
4XDrJ TIL of the fraternal birth order effect, which indicates that for every older male brother a man has, their odds of being attracted to the same sex increases by a third.