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TIL a father and his autistic son were stranded in the Atlantic ocean. They repeated “To infiniti and beyond” to keep track of each other for 15 hours before being rescued.

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kg5g TIL During WW2 in Africa, US tanks were outmatched by superior German tanks. So the US used Jeeps with machine guns to go behind enemy lines to destroy the fuel trucks supplying gas to the German tanks thereby disabling them.
KYl6R TIL conspiracy is against the law and just one move to enact the plan is enough to get you convicted.
8Vb TIL that Mansa Musa, Emperor of the Malian Empire, gave away so much gold to the poor that he devalued the currency and devastated the economy of the Middle East and North Africa for years
dD8LQ TIL that Hans Zimmer deliberately used a broken piano for the score of Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes" to make it sound like something you would hear in a pub.
GQ8g TIL Russian Cosmonauts carry a gun in space.