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TIL that flying cars were invented in 1954

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9w7Z7 TIL After the US Navy lost the USS Thresher in 1963, it instituted a quality assurance program called SUBSAFE for its submarines. As a result they went from losing 16 submarines to non-combat reasons in the 48 years before, to losing only the USS Scorpion (which wasn’t SUBSAFE certified) since 1963.
Bgmxy TIL that US tried to get Karl Dönitz, the man that succeeded Hilter, sentenced for War Crimes for ordering the German Navy not to rescue Allied survivors, only for it to be found out that order was created because the US Airforce attacked German Naval vessels trying to rescue Allied survivors.
rNmYo TIL excavations near the city of Nazareth unearthed 100,000 year old human remains. The human skeletons were associated with red ochre which was found only alongside the bones, suggesting that the burials were symbolic in nature. This is the earliest evidence of symbolic burial ever discovered.
5YOrP TIL Weinstein has been thanked more than God at the Oscars
4Xv5w TIL that in 1866, during the Austro-Prussian War, Liechtenstein sent an army composed of 80 soldiers to the front. 81 returned home, because nobody died and in addiction they made an Italian friend.