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TIL a Navy shower is a shower were the water is turned on to get wet, turned off while soaping up, and then turned on again just long enough rinse off. A Hollywood shower, by contrast, is a shower with no time limit at whatever temperature you prefer.

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rGXo TIL a huge, tracked vehicle was used in warfare in the mid 1800’s. It was called “The Megatherium war horse”.
ne5Br TIL, Ed Sheeran bought a ticket to LA with no contacts. He was spotted by Jamie Foxx, who offered him the use of his recording studio and a bed in his Hollywood home for six weeks.
9VkM TIL:The U. S. Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, in at least 26 locations off both coasts - The Army can’t say exactly where all the weapons were dumped because records are sketchy, missing or were destroyed. “It’s a disaster looming — a time bomb”
8wMK TIL When The Sex Pistols were inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame, they refused to go to the ceremony and called the museum a piss stain.
R5kLl TIL that 0.9 repeating equals 1. Proof: 1/3 = 0.3 repeating, when multiplied by 3, it is 0.9 repeating. However, 1/3 times 3 is equal to 3/3, which is equal to 1. Therefore, because 0.3 repeating = 1/3, 0.9 repeating = 3/3, which means 0.9 repeating = 1.