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TIL the welcome sign to Kurt Cobain’s hometown reads “Welcome to Aberdeen. Come as You Are.”

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KaMG TIL on April 5, 1943 the Destroyer USS O'Bannon encountered a Japanese submarine. Too close to fire their guns, the crew threw potatoes at the Japanses sailors, who thought they were grenades, distracting them long enough to get distance from the sub, fire their guns, and eventually sink it.
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