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TIL that when the submarine ARA San Juan disappeared in 2017, initial search crews picked up a banging noise at the search site, like tools hitting metal. After analyzing the audio, it was determined the sound was not from the submarine and was probably from a biological source.

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w0o8 TIL in 1993, during a Friar’s Club roast of Whoopi Goldberg, her then-boyfriend Ted Danson appeared in ‘black-face’ and began telling racially charged jokes. Whoopi came to his defense because she infact wrote much of the material and even referred him to the makeup artist.
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