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TIL During WWII the US Navy would convert two coal powered paddle-wheel steamships into the USS Wolverine and USS Sable, the only freshwater carriers ever created. Used for training on Lake Michigan, over 17,000 Navy pilots were certified on these vessels over the course of the war.

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kJxAg TIL The Yellowstone National Park is on top of a caldera, which is a volcano that explodes so powerfully and immediately that everything around falls into the hole created, thus you are vacationing inside the top of volcano, but it looks flat and not like a "normal" shield volcano.
9Omm TIL 16% of cell phones are contaminated with E. coli bacteria from fecal matter.
xVDJw TIL the first time british soldiers engaged american soldiers during the American Revolution they were ordered to "lay down your arms, you damned rebels ". When the american commanding officer ordered his men to stand down he wasn't heard properly due to having tubercolisis. Fighting ensued.
8a9jK TIL Julia Louis-Dreyfus once parked in Tom Arnold's parking spot on the CBS lot. He left a note on her windshield that read "How stupid are you? Move your f--king car, you asshole!" She later found "a Polaroid of someone's buttocks left on her windshield and the word 'cunt' written in soap."
XEKME TIL the first huge ammonium nitrate disaster happened 104 years before the Beirut explosion in Faversham, Kent, UK, but was hushed up by authorities during the first world war. 108 people lost their lives and many more were injured.