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TIL: Search For Titanic Really Was Cover-Up Mission to find missing nuclear submarines

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yVb6M TIL that even if you get the call “we have a kidney”, positive cross match nixes it
Ko64 TIL: No insurance company will underwrite Jackie Chan’s productions. As such he personally trains his own stuntmen and pays their medical bills out of his own pocket. (Last paragraph)
VM0oB TIL it costs more to renounce U.S. Citizenship ($2,350) than applying to gain it ($725). Renouncing citizenship was free before 2010. A fee was imposed due to the increase in recent years.
loNd1 TIL its safer to do a 360 on short final at 100' AGL in to Mogadishu in a Boeing 727 than it is to fly over the city.
b9d5E TIL Tree DNA was used in US federal court to connect a log poacher to the stump of the tree he illegally cut down and that now volunteers are working on creating tree DNA databases for future prosecutions.