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TIL that there was a submarine named the USS Kamehameha.
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4XAxX
TIL that scientists put horses in black-and-white striped costumes to try and find out why zebras are stripy. It seems that the stripes make flies less likely to land on them.
woj77
TIL that the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's party ordered that pronouns referring to Him "had to be capitalized, like those referring to God".
P1lOO
TIL three of the richest counties in the US are Washington DC suburbs
lo9Ka
TIL the queen parrotfish sleeps inside of a protective mucus bubble secreted from its mouth, presumably for hiding its scent from predators at night. The mucus bubble may also serve as an early warning system in the event that a predator, like a moray eel, tries to attack the resting parrotfish.
yPav
TIL that the creator of the TV series Wings died in a plane crash - he was on American Airlines Flight 11 that hit the North tower on September 11th.