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TIL that 74 men died after their submarine, USS Tang, torpedoed itself during a combat patrol.

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4kgZg TIL: Doctors used to blow tobacco smoke up your butt to cure cold, drowsiness, save people from drowning, headaches, etc. An early example was described in 1686 which describes shoving a pipe in and then repeatedly pumping in smoke. Early critics were worried it made the brain "sooty".
VMrnZ TIL about the 80s Pakistani action flick, Hitlar, in which der Führer settles down in Pakistan and sires a son. The son of Hitler -Hitlar - spends his days terrorizing a small town, using his musical sting to petrify his enemies, and conversing with paintings of his dead Nazi father.
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