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TIL that France has a nuclear submarine, called “The Terrible” that roams the world at unknown oceans always ready to strike

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1aX7d TIL that many inventions credited to Thomas Edison were in fact stolen from other inventors. Edison ruthlessly patented inventions from other inventors so he could claim them as his own work.
9YXxQ TIL: The man who creates the Pringles can was buried in his creation.
QNn16 TIL in the 1950s, the CIA exploited Filipino vampire myths to instill fear in villages, killing a man, marking him with bite wounds, and hanging him upside down. This was part of efforts to help elect Ramon Magsaysay, a U.S. backed president.
l70lG TIL OJ Simpson wrote a book titled If I Did It after being found not guilty for the murder of his ex wife Nicole. After filing for bankruptcy a judge awarded all profits of the book to the family of his ex wife who promptly changed the cover to say I Did It with the if in tiny font.
epAgL TIL Chris Stapleton's cover of David Allen Coe's Tennessee Whiskey uses the melody of I'd Rather Go Blind by Etta James, as Stapleton and his band played the song frequently on tour and decided to use it in the eventual cover.