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TIL a total of nine nuclear submarines have been sunk around the world and most remain on the ocean floor with their nuclear weapons and reactors intact.

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9WZD TIL there are only 5 people still alive who were born in the 19th Century
jVZN TIL, among other health benefits, wasabi kills e-coli and other food born bacteria.
NLQE TIL that the Government lends money to banks at a .75% interest rate vs students at a 3.75%+ interest rate.
gr119 TIL in 1871 to support the need for more bells in the Cologne Cathedral, Kaiser Wilhelm I donated 24 captured French canons to be melted down and cast. The three ton bell created was named Kaiserglocke. Ironically the bell was melted down in 1918 to support the German war effort.
R7D8 TIL that when challenged to use the word horticulture in a sentence, Dorothy Parker famously said: ‘you can lead a horticulture but you cannot make her think’