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TIL: The Soviet K-429 nuclear submarine sunk twice and than became a training sub

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OGQo6 TIL human poop is used as fertilizer on farm fields
Ebwx TIL GM tried to discredit Ralph Nader, hiring private detectives to tap his phones and investigate his past, and hired prostitutes to trap him in compromising situations. Nader sued GM and settled the case for $425,000. He used the money to start the pro-consumer Center for Study of Responsive Law.
V4ep TIL that a boy was allowed to change his own name when he was 9 years old. Today, he is Dr. Loki Skylizard and he is a cardiothoracic surgeon from New Jersey.
b1l4 TIL of ‘Genie’, a child who was kept in a blacked out room by her father for the first 13 years of her life
j5ka TIL that in 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a maximum income of $25,000, equivalent to roughly $350,000 today.