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TIL in 1941, the crew of submarine HMS Trident were given a reindeer as a gift by the USSR navy and it spend six weeks on the sub with them until they reached home.

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jN60a TIL Thomas Edison would give potential employees a bowl of soup during the interview, if they salted or peppered the soup before tasting it they wouldn't get the job. This was to test whether the employees had analytical minds and didn't make assumptions.
5VAl9 TIL that there have been several scientific papers published associating the winning chances in football or soccer matches with playing a short pass based possession game, now known popualrly as tiki taka
gMD4 TIL Everyone used to sleep twice in once night, they would wake up at midnight to have sex and read or tell stories.
b9yN7 TIL that a theoretical particle called a tachyon exists, it has many theoretical properties such as moving faster than light and the ability to go back in time.
bgQa TIL That Wernher Von Braun, the man who designed the V2 rocket for the Germans, always wanted to go to space, and when the first V2 hit London, he said “The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.”