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TIL that during WWI the British built a submarine armed with the gun of a battleship

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0BVL TIL Mel Blanc the voice of Bugs Bunny, voiced Barney Rubble from the Flintstones while he was in full-body cast as he lay flat on his back with the other Flintstones co-stars gathered around him after a car crash.
l5GN TIL that during nuclear testing in Los Alamos in the ‘50s, an underground test shot a 2-ton steel manhole cover into the atmosphere at 41 miles/second. It was never found.
wLDr1 TIL Almonds are a member of the rose family. The same as a peach, apricot, plum, and cherry. Because the fruit of the almond is a drupe, consisting of an outer hull and a hard shell with the seed, which is not a true nut, inside.
6Ean7 TIL the premise for The Smashing Pumpkins music video "Today" was inspired by a memory from Billy Corgan when the local ice cream truck driver quit his job, and he ended up giving away all of the ice cream in the truck to all the neighborhood kids.
ZRv4 TIL In the same way that humans tend to be right-handed or left-handed, elephants can be right-tusked or left-tusked. Their dominant tusk is easy to identify, because it will be more worn down than the less dominant tusk, according to the World Wildlife Fund.