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TIL there is only one instance in history that a submarine managed to intentionally sunk another submerged submarine in combat.

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mxxxO TIL that for his aborted film project ’Napoleon Bonaparte,’ Stanley Kubrick amassed one of worlds most extensive and well-documented archives on the French emperor. He spent decades and thousand of dollars preparing for film because he was reportedly “unimpressed by every Napoleon film ever made.”
Md98 TIL The Walt Disney Company is the largest consumer of fireworks in the world and the second largest purchaser of explosive devices, right behind the U.S. military
0d8Lj TIL René Lacoste won 7 Grand Slam tennis titles, won a bronze medal at the 1924 Olympics, founded the Lacoste clothing company, and invented the first tubular steel racket at a time when wood rackets were the norm.
pY0KG TIL that the Uranus Fudge Factory is a real place and not just a joke from memes.
GY8MG TIL There are an estimated 40 quadrillion black holes in the observable universe.